Trilateral accord on labour and social agreement signed

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A state accord on labour and social agreement was signed last Friday by the government, Mongolia's Trade Unions (MTU) and Mongolia’s Union of Employers (MUE). A press conference about this was called last Friday by S.Chinzorig, the Minister of Labour; Kh.Amgalanbaatar, the MTU president; Kh.Ganbaatar, the MUE vice-president; and B.Lhagvajav, the president of the Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MNCCI). it was said that the parties had discussed 70 proposals and divided them into 53 clauses in six chapters in the accord. They had considered as necessity to maintain principles such as consulting common matters of the social welfare and labour for the population and the labour relations in the 2015-2016 national trilateral accord; not causing a pressure on the state budget in times of economic difficulties; maintaining job places rather than augmenting salaries, allowance and pensions of state servants; and utilizing other financial and economic measures in order to save the population’s revenues. The MTU demand about a 60% pay rise for state servants was solved by a way of adding MNT 90 billion for the expenses of salaries and social insurance incentives, and MNT 13 billion--for increasing pensions. All this will be reflected in the 2015 budget clarification, said S.Chinzorig, the Minister of Labour. This year’s trilateral accord was a special action because the parties established a cooperation memorandum which aims to save jobs by maintaining a stability, to prevent a decline in population’s incomes by supporting the employment, and to ensure a participation of the social agreement’s sides in overcoming the current economic difficulties in a short time.