Before new protests against its right-wing nationalist government has dismissed Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the wave of demonstrations against a new Overtime regulation as an exaggerated reaction of the Opposition.
“It didn’t surprise me,” he said on Friday in his regular Interview on public Radio. “The same hysterical cries, there were many times, such as we have the obligation to work (for welfare recipients).”
the protests had may be required to Trigger a new labour law, as a result, the workers ‘ to 400 instead of the 250 hours of Overtime per year. Another large-scale rally is planned for this Friday evening in Budapest.
Orban stressed in the Interview in the law, enshrined in principle to the voluntary nature of the Overtime to be worked: “those Who want to earn more, want more can work.”
the trade unions and the government’s critics, however, point to the fact that in this particular operating everyday life in Hungary, the employer’s “voluntary” can very easily simulate by exerting pressure on the employees. According to their calculations, the new scheme is equivalent to the covert introduction of a Six-day-a-week.
President Janos Ader had signed the law on Thursday. According to the immediate expected publication in the official journal it should be on 1. January enter into force.
protests against the “slave law”
Since the approval of the law on Wednesday a week ago by the government majority in Parliament passed in Budapest and other major cities of the country, thousands of people on the road, against the – as you call it – “to protest slave law”.
protests are also other grievances advanced under the Orban-government in the focal point. Thus, the restriction of the media and freedom of Science and the corruption were criticized. (ij/sda)
Created: 21.12.2018, 15:10 PM
