27. 06. 2024.

The annual meeting of the European Works Council of Erste Group will be held in Belgrade on June 26th and 27th, 2024. Employees from around ten different countries expressed a desire to learn about the work of the Republic Agency for Peaceful Settlement of Labor Disputes and, through the Erste Bank Union in Serbia, invited the Agency to be a special guest at the event.

Given the long-standing cooperation with these unions, the Agency accepted the invitation, and the Director of the Agency, Dr. Ivica Lazović, spoke about the work and competencies of the Agency. Dragana Andonovska, Senior Advisor at the Agency and Head of the Legal Affairs Group, discussed the practice of peaceful resolution of labor disputes, particularly issues related to overtime work, wage payments and other benefits, termination of employment contracts, as well as mobbing in banks and ways to address these problems.

Erste Group employees were given insights into collective bargaining, practices, experiences, and trends in Europe and worldwide by Prof. Dr. Živko Kulić, one of the most experienced mediators and arbitrators of the Agency. On the second day of the event, participants were introduced to ways of combating mobbing, as well as collective bargaining, by Olga Vučković Kićanović, a mediator and arbitrator of the Agency and an expert in labor law.

All representatives of the Agency answered numerous questions and participated in a dialogue that made the event particularly engaging.