Petr Necas likely to continue as Labour Minister in new govt.

(From Czech News Agency)

Prague, Dec 20 (CTK) - Current Labour and Social Affairs Minister and Deputy PM Petr Necas (Civic Democrats, ODS), 42, is likely to retain his posts of the new coalition government. Necas named the launch of a pension reform as his priority, but politicians had no time to discuss it in the last four months due to the protracted talks about the formation of a government. Necas succeeded to postpone by one year a new system of sickness benefits, which will save several billion crowns from the state budget, but he failed to postpone the effectivity of the controversial Labour Code. However, he will probably continue to do his work in the new …