Serbia air traffic control chief wants pay cuts
<http://rs.n1info.com/journalist389/N1-Belgrade> Author: N1 Belgrade <http://rs.n1info.com/journalist389/N1-Belgrade> Share: <http://rs.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a653081/Serbia-air-traffic-control-chief-wants-pay-cuts.html> Link je kopiran Izvor: N1 The CEO of the Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services (SMATSA) is set to propose pay cuts because of a drop in income from overflights, N1 was told by sources at the air traffic control agency. SMATSA CEO Predrag Jovanovic will submit the proposal for a 20 percent pay cut to the Oversight Committee following recent pay cuts at the Serbian Civil Aviation Directorate . The sources warned that flight control will fall victim to the upset in air traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The sources said that the SMATSA management has taken out short-term loans to pay salaries and is now in a situation in which it can no longer repay those loans which is why the CEO decided on the maximum pay cuts allowed under collective contract. One flight controller who insisted on anonymity added that Jovanovic wanted to cut salaries by 50 percent in April but gave up on that idea. The sources said that salaries can be cut by up to 20 percent if SMATSA income drops by more than five percent due to outside causes. They said that the amount of air traffic rose constantly by much more than five percent over the past five years but salaries remained the same. SMATSA is an LLC which is not paid from the budgets of Serbia and Montenegro but calculates its income from Eurocontrol which means that the earnings that have not been spent are returned to Brussels and the SMATSA budget for the next year is reduced by the amount returned to the European air traffic control. N1 asked the SMATSA union for a comment on the pay cuts but union representatives said that they do not want to make any public statement before drafting law suits over the violations of the collective contract. The SMATSA management was also contacted for a comment but did not respond. http://rs.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a653081/Serbia-air-traffic-control-chief-wants-pay-cuts.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/senet/062b01d69250%24a5574fd0%24f005ef70%24%40gmail.com.
