2015 Annual Review of Labour Relations and Social Dialogue Slovenia GORAN LUKIC March 2016  Slovenia’s main economic indicators improved in 2015 while the labour market situation is giving mixed signals. The number of people in paid employment in October 2015 was more than in October 2014 but on the other hand, there is a clear rise in the number of people who work not as employees but as self-employed “ service providers ” .  2015 was a year that was defined by the intensification of the privatisation procedure for companies with a state share(Žito, Aerodrom Ljubljana, Adria Airways Tehnika, Elan).  On the level of tripartite social dialogue, the Social Agreement 2015-2016 was signed between the social partners but before the end of the negotiation procedure, several employer’ organisations with­drew from it. At the moment, the Agreement is still valid until the end of 2016, as it has been published in the official gazette. But practically the Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportu­nities has publicly declared that the Social Agreement has “ fallen ” .  The process of privatisation of(partially) state-owned companies had also a strong impact on bilateral as well as tripartite social dialogue due to the fact that in some cases(Adria Airways, Tehnika) repre­sentatives of employees were almost completely ignored by the formal consortium of sellers of state­owned companies.  In 2015, after almost twenty years of pressure, trade unions managed to change the definition of min­imum wage through a “ popular initiative ” action so that some bonuses will no longer be included within the definition of the minimum wage and will be paid as extra compensation.  After a very intense period of negotiations, an agreement on measures in the field of salaries and other labour costs in the public sector was signed between the public sector trade unions and the govern­ment on 10 November 2015.