25 April 2016

Following the initiative of the Slovenian Union of Journalists and last year's widespread investigation in Slovene media companies, the parliamentary party Združena levica filed a legislative procedure for amending the Labour Inspection Act. Since the financial crisis in 2008 regular employment among journalists has fallen by 16%, while contract works have risen by 64%. Contract workers do not enjoy equal legal rights and protection (e.g. most media houses do not cover legal expanses for contract workers in case of their prosecution due to their reporting). The new law would allow Labour Inspectorate to have more power in punishing those media outlets employing contract workers to carry out full employment tasks, and allow for greater legal protection of contract workers.

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