Strict penalties for employers for non-issuing payroll lists to employees

The Minister for Labor, Employment, War and Social issues, Aleksandar Vulin, said on Sunday (August 10, 2014) that employers will suffer severe penalties if they do not issue a payroll list to a worker based on which he or she can get his or her unpaid salary at the court.

Non-issuance of payroll list and violation of the Labor Law will cause “immediate and severe penalties for employers”, Vulin said for Novi Sad Dnevnk,, pointing out that they are working on strengthening of the labor inspection which will react immediately in such cases.

Warning that workers must be paid as suppliers are paid, credits are paid, the minister outlined that the state will no longer allow that “someone sponsors a concert and that his workers strike in the streets because they have not received their salaries for months.”

Vulin added that “every employer which uses a worker to work for him, must pay his salary and that, if he does not do it, will have to deal with the labor inspection.”

The Minister reminded that the inspection has already got wider authorizations and added that it will react immediately without waiting for more unpaid salaries or for the workers not being given a payroll list.

Vulin estimated that the payroll list, which is an executive document, is “a mechanism which will significantly increase payment of unpaid salaries and the right opportunity to show we are orhanized and serious country”, mentioning that discussions with judges will likely to be essential so that they would react faster.