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Michaela Kovacova

Michaela Kovacova

Social Partners Fail to Agree on Minimum Wage, AZZZ Proposes €646 per Month

Social Partners Fail to Agree on Minimum Wage, AZZZ Proposes €646 per Month

Bratislava, July 15 (TASR) – The social partners (employers, employees and government) have failed to agree on the minimum wage for 2022 within the legally set deadline (July 15), and so the Presidium of the Association of Employers Unions (AZZZ) has approved a proposal to preserve the minimum wage for next

Constitutional Court Suspends Effect of UVZ's Regulation on Border Regime

Constitutional Court Suspends Effect of UVZ's Regulation on Border Regime

Kosice, July 14 (TASR) – The Constitutional Court on Tuesday (July 13) suspended the effect of the Public Health Authority’s (UVZ) regulation, ordering a mandatory quarantine for all people arriving in Slovakia except for those vaccinated as of July 9. The Constitutional Court will still decide on the regulation’s

AKO Poll: Voice-SD Would Have Won Election in July, Followed by SaS and Smer

AKO Poll: Voice-SD Would Have Won Election in July, Followed by SaS and Smer

Bratislava, July 13 (TASR) – Had a general election taken place in July 2021, it would have been won by ex-premier Peter Pellegrini’s Voice-SD party on 20.8 percent of the votes, ahead of the junior governing Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party on 13.8 percent and the opposition Smer-SD

Kollar Wants to Deal with Referendum-related Legislative Change in July

Kollar Wants to Deal with Referendum-related Legislative Change in July

Bratislava, July 8 (TASR) – Parliamentary Chair Boris Kollar (We Are Family) has posted on a social network that he wants to include in the special July House session a procedural proposal to change legislation in order to enable a referendum on a snap election to be announced. Kollar claims this

Lengvarsky: Antigen Tests Won't Be Free of Charge Any More

Lengvarsky: Antigen Tests Won't Be Free of Charge Any More

Bratislava, July 7 (TASR) – Antigen tests for COVID-19 will never be free of charge again, said Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee) following the Cabinet session on Wednesday, adding that a certain number of PCR tests per month might be made available for free, however. The health minister said

Total of 6,697 Suspected Adverse Reactions to COVID Vaccines So Far

Total of 6,697 Suspected Adverse Reactions to COVID Vaccines So Far

Bratislava, July 6 (TASR) – A total of 6,697 cases of suspected adverse reactions to vaccines against COVID-19 had been reported in Slovakia up to Wednesday (June 30), the State Institute for Drug Supervision (SUKL) has noted on its website, adding that 564 of these cases were serious, making up

Lengvarsky Supports Vaccination Lottery, Finds Any Motivation Good

Lengvarsky Supports Vaccination Lottery, Finds Any Motivation Good

Dolny Kubin, July 1 (TASR) – Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee) told a news conference in Dolny Kubin (Zilina region) on Thursday that he supports the so-called vaccination lottery, as he views any motivation as good. “It doesn’t matter whether people are motivated by the possibility to travel,