a minute agoSalaries brought down by Government Now Increases Constitutional Court
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)All public sector officials since December last year have received lower wages because of the new Law of Salaries, from January 2024, the salaries will be returned to the preliminary level. This is the decision that the highest judicial institution, the Constitutional Court, has published during Tuesday's Gzim [...]
All public sector officials since December last year have received lower wages because of the new Law of Salaries, from January 2024, the salaries will be returned to the preliminary level.
That is the decision that the highest judicial institution, Constitutional Court, has published during Tuesday
Gzim Shala from the IKD says that in the new Law of Salaries, according to the Court, there are some articles that are not in accordance with the Constitution of Kosovo, and are therefore required to have interference.
The Constitutional Court stresses that the bias in question no longer has to do with public officials who have been raised wages, but it deals with cases of people who have been lowered wages, and according to their decision all officials will continue to receive the salary raised just as it was before the new constitutional law, he said.
The next concern in that period was lowering salaries for two key categories, prosecutors and judges.
Former Supreme Court Chairman Fejzullah Hasani says that if this happened, the period of several years ago would come back.
“The system of justice for years has been neglected, and wages have been so low that they have an impact on the corruption in the justice system and on the massive escape of judges and prosecutors, but the most insistent Americans have developed a rate that has been trying to balance judges' salary”.
The court has also allowed six months of time for the Kosovo Assembly to regulate even the article on the cofficiency of work experience.
The law said that the work experience decreased from 0.5% to 0.25% for the first 15 years of work experience and that reduction, according to the Constitution, violates property rights.
The Constitutional Decision, the parliamentary majority says it will respect it, though there are some questions.
LVV Parliamentary Group head Mimoza Kusari-Lila said the Assembly will reflect on the completion of the Law on Rewards, according to the Constitutional Act.
“Of course, the Parliament under full prejudice will reflect on compliance with the law, but still losing the element that in the public sector should not have such a big difference in lower pay and higher pay. This has been the idea, introducing a clear and transparent level for all between higher pay and lower wages”, has declared Kusari-Lila.
The law on salaries was submitted to the Constitutional Court by the ombudsman in April of this year.
The law was adopted in the Assembly in December 2022.
