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Hello. Here to present
the decisions made

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at the 182nd government meeting
is the Minister of Labor, Family,

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Social Affairs, and Equal
Opportunity Luka Mesec. -Thank you.

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I have good news for you today:
The government has launched

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the Reduced Working Hours Plan.

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At the beginning of the year,
we joined our social partners

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to examine the world situation.

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A number of things
concerned us: the war in Ukraine,

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Trump's announced tariffs,
and declining export markets.

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We determined that the crisis
could reach Slovenia this year.

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The social partners
and the government agreed then

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to make the Reduced Working Hours
Plan a part of systemic legislation.

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The state has made use
of such plans in the past,

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including during the 2008 crisis
and the Covid outbreak.

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We've now drafted a systemic
act that defines when

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and under what conditions
the state could begin

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to reduce working hours
on a per-industry basis

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in case of a natural disaster
or systemic crisis.

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The purpose is to reduce
the working hours

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using a state subsidy in order
for the employees

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to retain their jobs. Companies
that can't guarantee work

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for all their employees
at a given moment

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can survive without layoffs.
That's the purpose of the plan.

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Based on the act passed
early this year,

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the plan can be activated
by the government,

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and the government
activated it today.

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We decided that the plan can be
used in the following industries:

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apparel manufacturing, leather
and leather goods manufacturing,

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printing, non-metal mineral
manufacturing,

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metal manufacturing,
metal goods manufacturing,

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motor vehicle manufacturing,
vehicle manufacturing,

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and furniture manufacturing.
These are the industries

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where we've detected a drop
in orders,

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but this isn't a decade-long trend.
These industries have

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functioned normally but have
seen declines in orders

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over the past year because
of the circumstances I've mentioned:

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export markets, tariffs,
and so on.

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Industry representatives
say this is a temporary

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phenomenon and if we
help them out

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for three or six months,
if required,

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they'll win back enough orders
to resume production

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at a normal pace. The government
has therefore decided

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to enable these industries,
within the time frame

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from December 5
to March 5,

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to reduce the working hours
of some of their employees.

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The following
are the preconditions:

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The company must demonstrate
that it cannot guarantee

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at least 90% of work
to at least 30% of workers.

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It must furnish a written statement
assuring that this is the case.

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Under this condition, employees
could then be furloughed

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for five to 20 hours a week.

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They'll work at least half
their working hours,

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or the time will be reduced
by at least five hours a week.

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For the period when
they're not working,

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the state will pay a compensation
in the amount

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of 60% of the worker's
gross wages.

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There are some conditions.
A company taking part

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in this plan may not fire
employees,

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must not undergo liquidation, and
cannot pay out dividends.

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If it violates these conditions,
it will need

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to return the funds
received from the state.

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While furloughed,
the workers will need

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to sign up for various
training sessions

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because upskilling is one
of the purposes of this plan.

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To sum this up, we activated
the Reduced Working Hours Plan

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today. It will be in effect
for three months,

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from December 5 to March 5.
The purpose of the plan

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is to preserve jobs
and prevent layoffs.

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In March, we'll conduct an analysis
of how well the plan has worked

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and decide whether to extend it
for another three months.

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Companies making use
of the plan will need

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to abide by certain criteria,
such as not being allowed

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to lay off people,
pay out dividends,

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or undergo liquidation.

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That's a short summary.

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Thank you. We'll now
take questions from the media.

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No one?
-OK.

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Thank you, Minister.
-Thank you.

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Joining us now
is the State Secretary

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at the Ministry of Public
Administration Mojca Ramšak Pešec

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to present decisions
from her domain.

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Thank you.

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Today, the government
approved the proposed

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Special Bill on the Wages
and Other Revenue

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for Public Servants
and Officials Working Abroad.

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The legislation rounds
out wage reform

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in the public sector
as set out

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in the Public Sector
Wage System Act.

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Until now, this area
had been regulated by decree,

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which turned out
to be legally deficient.

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We had the chance to define
this subject matter

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on a legislative level.

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We're happy that we're now
sending this legislation

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to the National Assembly,
considering this

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is a complex subject matter.
The inclusion of wages

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of those working abroad
in the public wage sector

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makes it possible
for those wages to be comparable

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to those employed in Slovenia.

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This will be gross wages.
Until now, they were set

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on the net level, and all taxes
and contributions

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were based on the wages
these employees

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would have received at home.
It's a major systemic regulation

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compared with the wage system
for those working in Slovenia.

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It will also allow these wages
to be included

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in the wage system
of administrative employees.

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This hasn't been possible before.
We'll now be able

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to monitor wages
and their financial effects.

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Employees sent
to work abroad

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will receive three
types of income.

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One of them
is the basic wage,

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which will be comparable to that
of similar positions in Slovenia.

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This will be tied to the adversity
quotient for work abroad.

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They will also be compensated
for expenses in line

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with public servants
in Slovenia.

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Then we have the third category,
namely compensation

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tied to their stay abroad.

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This mostly consists of
compensation

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for their living expenses, tuition
fees, and a remoteness bonus.

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This is connected with
circumstances

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that require compensation
when working abroad.

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The legislation sets
a framework,

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a set of rights, and rules
for their determination,

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as well as criteria for
and limits to their amounts.

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The specific amount
will continue to be set

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by decree according to the job
and the destination country.

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A system for coordinating
the amount of those expenses

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has also been set up,

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as has a body for the monitoring
of the expenses.

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The part covering
compensation for living expenses

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brings us closer to what
exists in other countries

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by not making the compensation
for employees abroad

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taxable or the basis
for contributions.

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This is about compensation
for expenses incurred abroad.

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This legislation rounds out
wage reform in the public sector.

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Given that this represents
a substantial change in determining

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these wages and including them
in the same system

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as wages in Slovenia, the timeline
for this act to go into effect

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is somewhat longer. It will go
into effect on June 1, 2025.

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A decree defining
the exact amounts

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of wages and other forms
of compensation

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for specific jobs and countries
will need to be passed by then.

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These wages will need to be included
in the system of wages

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in the public sector, which
hasn't been the case so far

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because of the specific
circumstances I've mentioned.

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Thank you.
Now the questions. Go ahead.

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Sonja Poznič Cvetko, STA.

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I would like to check the date,
when this Act comes into force.

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Is it the 1st June?
-2026. -2026? Okay.

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And how many employees
does this Act refer to?

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How big is this group of employees
that will be directed to work abroad

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and will be treated
under this Act?

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And what financial effects
do you expect? Approximately.

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The number of public servants
that are directed to work abroad

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is approximately 900. 350 of these
through Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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500 soldiers
and 30, 40 teachers,

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some employees are going through
the Ministry of Internal Affairs

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on different missions.
Approximately 900.

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Financial effects at first sight...
I shall put it like this.

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Salary increase
expected under this Act

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and later given effect
in the directive

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is bound by a salary increase
in the public service in Slovenia

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and this means 22%.

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They will enter the system
similarly as public servants.

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Tranches at the same dates

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and starting the final value
of pay grades with January 1st 2028.

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A financial effect is a bit higher
than a salary increase.

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Or substantially higher,
because under the new Act

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taxes and contributions will be
calculated from the salaries

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they will receive from working abroad
and not from salaries

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they would receive
for working in Slovenia.

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But higher taxes and contributions
are an effect

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that will be given back
to the budget

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or funds
of compulsory social insurance.

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A financial effect is approximately
10-12 million every year,

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connected also with
the salary increase until 2028.

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Domen Anderle, RTV.
I'm interested in the amendment

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at yesterday's meeting about
Intervention Act in Healthcare.

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You've lowered a bonus for residents
of the emergency medicine

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from 1000 to 600 Euros.
Why?

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I have to emphasize
that it's not a bonus.

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It is a special incentive
and it's not a part of the salary.

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This is a difference
from a previous incentive

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for choosing residency
in the family medicine

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that was introduced
in the old system.

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That was a bonus.

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This incentive is now smaller,
because the estimates showed

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that the doctors, when finishing
the residency, should have

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besides the salary
and this incentive,

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lower income
than residents.

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Meaning, the doctors specialists
that received this incentive

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which is some kind of reward
of choosing this residency,

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would afterwards receive only salary
and the income would be lower.

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Couldn't you calculate this, before
it was written in the draft law

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that it will be 1000 Euros?

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This is the Act
of the Ministry of Health

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and I believe they had reasons.
They've probably followed an example

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of the previous bonus
for residents of the family medicine.

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After we warned them,
they have calculated it again

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and established this.
-Don't the family medicine residents

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have the same issue?

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That residents have a better income
than specialists?

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They haven't been in praxis yet,
because the residents

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that were receiving this bonus
haven't finished the residency yet.

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When they finish,
there will be an issue

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which will have to be solved.

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There are solutions with different
instruments in the salary system

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that enables also placing them
in a higher pay grade

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and a higher salary.
But we should expect

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that the specialists
of the family medicine

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will have this issue. -But you won't
lower this financial incentive there,

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but you will place them
in higher pay grades?

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The specialists
of the family medicine?

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I'm not predicting this,
because I'm not authorised.

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I'm just saying that there is
a solution and we will have an issue,

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because the bonus is so high.

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Why don't you solve this with
a higher pay grade here as well?

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The fact that specialists
have lower salaries or earnings

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after completing
their specialization

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is a problem that cannot be solved
by introducing additional cases.

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I think it will be necessary
to solve this problem

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with family medicine specialists

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and then avoid normative regulations
that would cause these problems.

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Don't you think it sends
a bad message to young doctors?

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It's a really demanding
specialization, we have a shortage.

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Only one person applied in
the autumn call for applications.

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We would need
300 of them at the moment.

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You are sending them
various messages and signals

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about how valuable
their work is.

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Let me repeat, this question
should primarily be addressed

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to the proposer of the Draft Act.
I was involved

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as the administrator
of the public sector pay system

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after the Act
had already been drafted,

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but not in the drafting
of the Act.

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However, the fact is that

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if we are talking about
a comparison of specializations,

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there are several
with varying degrees of difficulty,

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so from this point of view,
I think that the priority should be

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to ensure that individual
legislative changes

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and intervention measures
do not disrupt

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the remuneration system
or the level of earnings

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within different jobs

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in the same occupational group.

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So I believe that the question
may also be asked

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as to what will happen to those who
started their specialization before

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compared to those
who will start now.

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There are several issues
that could indicate an imbalance,

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and that's why it was necessary,
it was a wise decision

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that, regardless of the fact
that the supplement

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had already been implemented,

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we are not adopting legislation

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that would disrupt the ratio
between different jobs

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within the same pay group.

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Any other questions?
Go ahead.

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When presenting
the previous Act,

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you said that it rounds off
the wage reform.

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How are the negotiations
on work performance criteria going?

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Criteria and standards
for work performance.

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The negotiations
are separate for each pillar.

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The individual
negotiating groups

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are at different
stages of completion,

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but more important than
the negotiations themselves

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is the agreement that the unions
have set as a condition

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for concluding
the negotiations.

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We need to agree
on uniform instructions

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for calculating
the amount of savings.

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This is being done
by a special working group.

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Uniform instructions
for the entire public sector

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on what savings are and what
should be taken into account.

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Once we have agreed on this,
and I hope that we will,

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the trade unions have signalled

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that negotiations
on the criteria and standards

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will also be concluded
very quickly.

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They have stalled
in individual pillars

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precisely because
we are waiting

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for these uniform rules for
calculating savings to be agreed on.

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Is there a more specific
time frame envisaged?

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We had already agreed
on Monday the 8th

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to continue negotiations
at the central level,

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but given that the working group
is still reviewing

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the calculations of what
the individual rules would mean,

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or to some extent what the proposed
rules for calculating savings

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would mean for individual parts
of the public sector,

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these negotiations were postponed
in agreement with the trade union.

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I think
they will take place on Thursday.

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On Monday, the working group

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will continue to work
on preparing the guidelines.

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Tomorrow, we have a meeting
of government negotiators,

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where I expect the heads
of the pillars to report

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on the state
of the pillar negotiations.

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So you still expect
this new system

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to come into effect
with the new year? -Yes.

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The system will definitely
come into effect with the new year,

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because the basic criteria
and standards are in the Act.

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The Act states
that from 1 January

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work performance
will be paid out in a new way,

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so the system will definitely
be implemented on 1 January 2026.

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And I sincerely hope that by then
we will have completed

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negotiations on the detailed
criteria and standards,

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which are already
laid down in the Act,

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and also on a uniform instruction
regarding the calculation of savings,

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i.e. what will be distributed
as performance-related pay.

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Is that all? -Maybe ...
-The strategies. -Yes.

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Today the Government
confirmed or adopted two strategies.

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The strategy for the development
of volunteering until 2030

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and for the development

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of non-governmental
organizations until 2030.

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I would not go into details
about these strategies here,

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but I kindly invite you to a special
press conference on this topic

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at the Ministry of Public
Administration tomorrow at 11,

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invitations have already
been sent to the media.

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Thank you very much.
-Thank you. -Another question.

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Regarding
the Slovenian Press Agency Act.

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The Government
did not discuss it today,

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but has it already been discussed
by government committees? -Yes,

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on Tuesday. We expect it to be
discussed by the Government soon.

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It is still being coordinated.

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Thank you. This concludes
the press conference.