Opposition to query state-owned firms on implementation of labour code amendment

Parliament’s opposition parties on Wednesday said they will ask state-owned companies whether they plan on implementing the labour code’s new rules on overtime.

Ildikó Borbély Bangó, the Socialist Party’s deputy group leader, told a press conference she held jointly with other opposition politicians that the opposition will send out letters to state-owned company executives asking them if they will “enforce the slave law”.

She noted that there are currently 200 companies in Hungary funded from taxpayer money.

Bangó said the opposition parties will visit the premises of a state-owned company each week to ask their management about the implementation of the new overtime rules.

The Liberal Party’s Anett Bősz, who sits in parliament as an independent, called on the companies in question to honour the prime minister’s promise that under the new rules, employees will still receive their overtime pay at the end of the month.

Zsolt Gréczy of the Democratic Coalition said the polls showed that