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The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the Chairman
of the Council of Ministers and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Zlatko Lagumdzija,
today signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the calculation and payment of
social contributions and levies for local staff of the Office of the High
Representative.
Following MoUs signed in June by the OHR and the Ministers of
Finance of the two Entities, the OHR began paying social contributions for all
its local staff into a holding account. Today's signing gives legal effect to
the earlier MoUs and allows payment to be made directly to the appropriate
authorities.
The OHR is not legally obliged to make these
contributions. However, it regards the inclusion of its local staff in the
welfare system of BiH as an essential element in normalising working
conditions.
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