Prague, July 24 (CTK) – The Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) want employees of joint-stock companies to have at least one third of the seats on the supervisory boards of their companies, their leader Bohuslav Sobotka, who is prime minister, told journalists after a meeting of the CSSD board on Friday.
Labour and Social Affairs Minister Michaela Marksova (CSSD) said the party also wants to raise the monthly allowance paid to persons who need assistance from others due to their bad health condition or disability.
This allowance has not been increased for eight years, she said.
The CSSD wants the allowance to be increased by 10 percent as of July 2016, Marksova said.
The government coalition, including the CSSD, the ANO movement and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), is yet to discuss the issue.
Apart from these proposals, the CSSD board supported Friday the planned pay rise for police officers, firefighters and teachers as of November and for doctors and nurses as of January.
The Social Democrat board called on the CSSD ministers to speed up their work on the bills on social housing and NGOs in health care.
It wants an amendment to the lottery law to set aside a part of the taxed profits for the treatment of people addicted to gambling.
Marksova said the CSSD wants to push through the rule under which miners who worked for a given number of years could retire five years earlier than other employees.
The government did not reach agreement on this plan on Wednesday. ANO leader Andrej Babis, who is finance minister, demanded that the owner of the mine should cover a part of the costs involved.
Marksova said Babis’s argument that this possibility was supported by the OKD mining firm was irrelevant.
