Online legal guide through labor rights for journalists published

Web site U pravu si! for journalists explains in simple and clear manner legal rights and obligations related to labor for media professionals. Guide in particular addresses media professionals unionizing.

Online guide through labor rights and unionizing of journalists and media professionals U pravu si! was presented at the conference organized by Slavko Curuvija Foundation in the co-working venue Talk and Talk.

Andras Juhas, editor of the portal masina.rs, Dragana Pejovic, journalist and union leader at NIN weekly and Ilir Gashi, program director at Slavko Curuvija Foundation addressed the audience. Discussion was moderated by journalist Danica Vucenic. Besides guide presentation, guest speakers addressed feasibility to exercise labor rights for media professionals in Serbia today and perspectives for their unionizing in the future.

This project is funded by the European Union through the small grants programme “Protecting Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in the Western Balkans” implemented by the Croatian Journalists’ Association as part of the regional project Western Balkan’s Regional Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety, carried out through partnership of six regional journalists’ associations – Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS), Association of BH Journalists (BHJ), Croatian Journalists’ Association (CJA), Association of Journalists of Kosovo (AJK), Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) and the Trade Union of Media of Montenegro (TUMM).