The reduction of working time has become a central bargaining demand for Hungarian trade unions at national level in recent years. In Hungary, regular working time is regulated virtually solely by the Labour Code, as its reduction is rarely an issue for sectoral or company-level collective
Hungary, with an average per capita GDP of less than 75% of the EU average, expects to use approximately HUF 1,100 billion to HUF 1,600 billion (EUR 4.4 billion to EUR 6.4 billion) of money from the Community Structural and Cohesion Funds – Hungarian co-financing included – over the period between
Following several draft versions and a series of consultations, the coalition government of the Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt, MSZP [1]) and the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats (Szabad Demokraták Szövetsége, SZDSZ [2]) submitted a bill on 'healthcare service providers and
The Trade Unions’ Cooperation Forum (Szakszervezetek Együttműködési Fóruma, SZEF [1]), the dominant trade union organisation in the public service and civil administration sector - and arguably the biggest Hungarian trade union confederation with approximately 300,000 active members (HU0206102N [2])
2002 was divided into two political periods by the parliamentary elections held in April. The first months of the year were shaped by the policies of the right-wing coalition government led by the Alliance of Young Democrats-Hungarian Civic Party (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége – Magyar Polgári Párt
As of 1 September 2002, Hungary's new Socialist-led government introduced a package of incomes policy measures to increase public service employees’ pay by an average of 50% (HU0207102F [1]) Civil servants, judges and employees of state-owned public utility companies, such as railway workers, who
During 2002, due both to the inflated budget spending in a heated election campaign (HU0206101F [1]) and to the general economic difficulties of European economies, the Hungarian economy slowed down and showed a number of unhealthy signs. In 2002, GDP grew by only 3.3%, considerably lower than the 5
Although the Hungarian industrial relations system which took shape in the 1990s formally includes three layers of national, sectoral and company-level institutions, the sector level is widely known to be the weakest of them - social dialogue and bargaining practices at sector level are fairly
As a part of its proposal for the 2003 state budget, the coalition government of the Hungarian Socialist Party [1] (Magyar Szocialista Párt, MSZP) and the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats [2] (Szabad Demokraták Szövetsége, SZDSZ) has announced far-reaching privatisation plans, and for this purpose
The reduction of working time is increasingly becoming a central bargaining demand for Hungarian trade unions at national level. Regular weekly working time is a central issue in the current round of tripartite negotiations over increases in the national minimum wage (HU0207102F [1]) and