Special Report - All work and no pay for thousands in the Balkans


  • World
  • Thursday, 10 Jul 2014

Croatia's Finance Minister Boris Lalovac poses for a picture before a parliamentary session in Zagreb in this May 14, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic/Files

ZITISTE, Serbia (Reuters) - Complaining they had worked without pay for months late last year, employees of the Serbian farming company Agroziv staged a short strike in January.

Why should they work for no money, they said. The company, a poultry producer in the north of the country, was short of cash and pleaded for more time to pay wages, workers said.

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