Congratulating International Women's Day, observed on 8 March, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said at the beginning of his Cabinet's meting on Thursday that in Croatia "it is still easier to be a man than a woman".
Stating that all the previous governments had done all they could to improve the position of women in the Croatian society, Milanovic said that his cabinet should make headway so as to put Croatia among European countries where women are equal to men.
Although the situation has improved, women are still not equal to men when it comes to the right to work and women's share in certain professions. Society does not yet provide them with sufficient logistic support, the PM said.
During today's session, the government adopted changes to legislation on government employees in order to introduce a category of staffers who "will come and leave with the ministers".
Those are people like a minister's chief-of-staff or spokesperson, Milanovic said, adding that the changes enabled ministers to hire such professionals in their offices. Following a government change, they would not be reassigned to other positions in the state administration but would leave their posts together with the ministers.
This is a transparent and fair model which does not put additional burden on the state budget, Milanovic said, adding that this model existed in many democracies.
The government also amended the regulation on titles of workplaces and task complexity coefficients in the state administration.
According to Public Administration Minister Arsen Bauk, the new internal organisation has reduced the number of bosses by 20 percent, which he said would help save some money.
