Several Companies to Make Workers Pay Back Portion of Salaries Due to Covid and Parts Shortage Shutdowns? Dozens of automotive, engineering, and electronics companies in Hungary are preparing to charge workers employed in a working time banking... 2021.10.12.
Worker’s Unions, Opposition Fear Latest Bill Amending Labor Code to Become ‘Slave Law 2.0’ A new revision to Hungary's Labor Code would allow employers to set the maximum duration of cumulative working time (or... 2020.06.10.
Unions Outraged as Government Makes Working Timeframe More Flexible for Companies In a decree issued on Good Friday, the government modified the overtime bill without prior consultation, and made it possible... 2020.04.14.
Court Ruling: Opposition MPs Were Lawfully Present in MTVA Headquarters Opposition politicians were lawfully present in the public media's (MTVA) headquarters in late 2018, leftist Democratic Coalition (DK) announced in... 2020.02.14.
Trade Unions: Employers Rarely ‘Use’ Overtime Bill’s Benefits Besides certain, rather rare cases, application of the much-debated overtime bill, a.k.a. the "slave law," has not at all become... 2019.12.16.
Socialists Call for Scrapping ‘Slave Law’ The opposition MSZP (Socialist Party) has called on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to scrap the law that sets stricter overtime... 2019.11.19.
Top Court Okays Labour Code Changes, Administrative Courts Hungary's Constitutional Court on Tuesday declared an amendment to the labour code and the law on the new administrative court... 2019.04.09.
Momentum Leader Questioned on Charges of Assault The Budapest regional prosecutor's office has questioned András Fekete-Győr, the head of the opposition Momentum Movement, in connection with charges... 2019.04.03.
DK Outlines Family Policy Plan Ferenc Gyurcsány, leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), on Monday, outlined his party's family policy plan aimed at encouraging... 2019.03.04.
Socialists-Párbeszéd Protest House Speaker’s Planned Sanction Representatives of the opposition Socialist and Parbeszed parties have protested against a fine House Speaker László Kövér has pledged to... 2019.02.05.
Jobbik Launches Signature Drive for ‘Slave Law’ Repeal Opposition Jobbik has started a nationwide signature drive for the repeal of the labour code amendments tightening overtime rules in... 2019.02.04.
Budapest Opposition Urges Local Governments not to Apply ‘Slave Law’ Opposition parties in the municipal council of Budapest on Wednesday jointly proposed that companies owned by the city and their... 2019.01.23.
Opposition Asks State Railways Not to Apply New Overtime Rules Opposition parties have asked the management of state railways MÁV not to apply new rules that allow employers to increase... 2019.01.22.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Are the Protests Fading Out? Pro-government outlets think the protest sparked by the law allowing 400 hours of overtime work per year is running out... 2019.01.21.
Opposition Turns to Top Court over Labour Code Amendment The parliamentary opposition parties are turning to the Constitutional Court with a request for it to annul the recent amendments... 2019.01.15.
Jobbik Calls on Govt not to ‘Sacrifice’ Workers on Capital’s Altar The right-wing opposition Jobbik party has called on the government not to sacrifice Hungarian workers on the altar of capitalist... 2019.01.14.
Szombathely Deputy Mayor Stripped of Powers Miklós Molnár, the deputy mayor of Szombathely, has been stripped of his powers, the communications chief of the municipal council... 2019.01.14.
Opposition: “Resist!” Opposition parties that do and do not have seats in parliament protested against the government as well as amendments to... 2019.01.14.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Unions Cooling on Idea of National Strike? According to the leading pro-government daily, trade unions could not reach agreement on a general strike proposed last week at... 2019.01.11.
Trade Unions Demand Withdrawal of Overtime Amendments, Fair Wages and Changes to Strike Law Trade unions demand the withdrawal of labour code amendments, changes to the strike law, fair wages and a flexible pension... 2019.01.09.
Companies Owned by Szombathely Municipality Barred from Raising Overtime Threshold Companies owned fully by the Szombathely municipality are not allowed to raise the threshold of overtime work, an extraordinary meeting... 2019.01.08.
