In contemporary society, worker rights are being transformed due to digitalization, long-distance work and new forms of employment. However, without workers that create, build and sustain the various systems, like agriculture, infrastructure, education, trade, healthcare and others, every society would face with negative consequences.
On the occasion of the 1st of May, International Workers’ Day, the Republic of Srpska Inspectorate once again wants to highlight that respect of worker rights and safe workplaces are in the common interest of the employer, worker and a society as a whole because they represent the basis for economic development and improvement of the quality of life in the Republic of Srpska.
We would like to draw special attention to the business community, that every investment into the improvement of the work conditions and better worker rights protection represents an investment that improves work productivity and brings mutual benefit to both the worker and the employer. Respect for worker rights cannot be a matter of choice, but a foundation of every stable society and economy.
Inspection authorities aim to contribute to the improvement of working conditions and worker position with their work in the field every day. In 2025, the Labour Inspection Service of the Republic of Srpska has carried out over 4,300 inspections where inspectors issued 965 administrative measures aiming to protect worker rights. Also, due to the confirmed offences, employers were issued 458 misdemeanour measures and penalties in the amount of BAM 838,600.
More worker rights protection, opening of businesses, new work opportunities and the decrease of unemployment need to be imperative in the work of all relevant participants in the economic life.
The Republic of Srpska Inspectorate will still be fully committed to worker rights protection. Preventive work, stopping of worker rights violations, and penalisation of negligent employers that deprive workers of rights guaranteed by law will still be our priority in the following period.
