Parliament Deputy Speaker Vladimir Seks said that the Chief State Inspector had carried out an inspection in the daily and that he would again invite both him and the economy minister to address the parliament.

Silvano Hrelja of the Croatian People's Party (HNS) suggested that the parliamentary committee on labour and social partnership discuss the situation in the daily, which is owned by Austria's Styria media group.

Before the start of the parliament's session, the striking Vecernji List journalists gathered outside the parliament to distribute leaflets to MPs, warning that the Labour Act was not being respected in the Croatian media.

More than 50 people have admitted to be working every day in Vecernji List with a part-time employment contract, which is contrary to the Labour Act, the striking journalists said in the leaflet, wondering why labour inspectors did not find this suspicious.

They also claim that over the 10 years of Styria's management, Vecernji List's circulation has dropped from 250,000 to 70,000, and the number of employees with permanent work contracts from 260 to 102, as well as that Styria is applying one set of standards in Austria and a different one in Croatia.

Most of Vecernji List journalists have been on strike since March 23 after the management unilaterally changed the collective work agreement, restricting the workers' rights.