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. Ildiko Borbely Bango, 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". The amendments to the labour code, approved by parliament in December, raised the annual threshold for overtime from 250 to 400 hours.