VI)  Employment of convicts Therefore, I supported the motion of the Council of the Government for Human Rights concerning the issue of imprisonment 51 aiming towards gradual adjustment of remunerations for work of convicted persons to inflation (currently stipulated in Government Regulation No. 365/1999 Coll., on the amount and conditions of remuneration of sentenced persons assigned to work during imprisonment. convicts’ workplace – sewing room The Government discussed the motion of the Council and, through Resolution No. 80 of 3 February 2016 [Art. II./1. (d)] tasked the Minister of Justice with preparing, by 30 June 2016, in co-operation with the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and the First Deputy Prime Minister for Economy and the Minister of Finance, a detailed analysis of the possible adjustment of convicts’ remuneration for work to inflation while taking into account the situation in the labour market and the options available to the State, including the possible mechanism of increasing remunerations, while observing the budget limits for the total expenses in 2017 and a mid-term outlook for the years 2018 and 2019 within the relevant budgetary chapter, and if the amount of the limits is such that the increase is impossible, to demand that the limits be increased. I welcome the resolution although it is my opinion that the analysis should not deal with the question as to whether to adjust remunerations to inflation but rather how and by what amount. I recommend that the Ministry of Justice: •• Draws up and submit a drafts amendment to Government Resolution No. 365/1999 Coll., increasing remunerations of convicted persons assigned to work during imprisonment, including the possible mechanism of the increase following Government Resolution No. 80 of 3 February 2016; this should be implemented by the end of 2016. 51 File No. of the submitting party in eLLP: 10474/2014-OLP. /25/