14 October 2010, 13:41
The bill (Reg. No. 6661) authorizes the educatees to participate in the conclusion of collective agreements to protect their socio-economic interests. It sets the legal principles for drafting, conclusion and implementation of the collective agreements and contracts to regulate labour relations, relations connected with the education and socio-economic interests of the personnel, educatees and owners."
The Committee members stressed that collective agreement belongs to the system of labour agreements, and regulates labour relations, i.e. legal connections between the employee and the employer, when the employee has to perform a particular labour function within the determined occupation, qualification and position in the respective organization in compliance with the office regulations, whereas the employer is obliged to provide labour remuneration and necessary labour conditions envisaged by the laws on labour, the collective agreement and the agreement of the parties (clause 21 of the Code of Laws on Labour).
However, relations in the sector of education presuppose rendering of services to acquire a particular educational and qualification level, the educatees being considered as service consumers, not service providers. According to the Committee members, it preconditions a special regulation policy on the administrative-legal principles and with public participation.