Beware of gifts from politicians

The Slovenian government has decided to raise the country's minimum wage. The daily Vecer advises people not to rejoice too soon: "Because the crisis is calming down. The government could have prevented many sad expressions on the faces of workers and their families, but it was playing for time on behalf of the employers. At least for now the latter have drawn the short straw. What they had to say went unheeded in the latest agreement between the government and the unions. ... Nevertheless Pergam union leader Dusan Rebolj warns that this could be sheer manoeuvring on the government's part, and that while raising the minimum wage it could at the same time lower all of the workers' other incomes. The real question is what the small print in this government present says. Or as a Slovenian proverb has it: beware of politicians that come bearing gifts."

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