MOSTAR, MAY 13 (ONASA) – Civil servants and employees of the Municipal Court and the Land Registry Office in Mostar sent an open letter in which they warn of the “discrimination that has been carried out for the past 14 years” against them.
They wrote to the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH, the Ministries of Justice of BiH, the Federation of BiH and the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton (HNK), the Governments of the HNK and FBiH, the OHR and the Human Rights Ombudsman of BiH, stating that they hope that they will be helped by the “basic conditions for life”.
“The public has an impression that employees working in a public institution have high incomes. However, the reality is far from the truth. On the contrary, with this open letter, civil servants and employees of the Municipal Court in Mostar want to inform all the mentioned institutions about the discrimination that has been perpetrated against us for the last 14 years. According to the current legal and by-law regulations, employees in the Municipal Court in Mostar receive income based on their salary in an amount that just keeps them alive. No HNK government has tried to change this situation so far,” they stated in the announcement.
As they point out, given the nature of the job, they especially want to highlight the employees who are exposed to stressful situations every day, and on whose responsibility and dedication to work the work of not only this court but also the Cantonal Court of the HNK, the Prosecutor’s Office of the HNK, the Supreme Court of the FBiH, and commercial companies largely depends. , citizens, ultimately also judges, employees of the Municipal Court in Mostar.
“The net salary of SSS employees in the Municipal Court in Mostar amounts to 1,072.00 BAM, but when income tax is deducted, the employee receives less than 1,000.00 BAM. We remind you that according to the latest official data from the Agency for Statistics, the consumer basket is 2,917.50 BAM and is it is clearly visible that our claims that we have been brought to the brink of existence are very true. The employees of the Municipal Court in Mostar did not even realize the promised one-time aid according to the decision of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted at the end of last year, even though this decree was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is no longer valid. June 30, 2024. There are only two months left for this government to have mercy on us and grant us the promised aid,” they state in the letter.
They add that civil servants and employees of the Municipal Court in Mostar are in yet another unenviable position because in 2010 the Law on Salaries and Remunerations in the authorities of the FBiH was passed, which Article 63 of that Law prescribes “Deadline for adoption of regulations on salaries and remuneration Cantons/ Counties, municipalities and cities in the Federation are obliged to adopt their harmonized regulations in the field of wages and benefits with this law within 90 days from the date of application of this law.
“Unlike other cantons in the FBiH, the HNK has not yet adopted a regulation harmonized with the above-mentioned umbrella regulation, which has led to the fact that employees within this Canton, including us as employees of the court in Mostar, have been discriminated against for more than a decade in in relation to employees in federal level institutions, i.e. in relation to employees in institutions of other cantons whose governments have passed the Law on Salaries and Remunerations in Authorities”, it was announced.
Officials and employees of the Municipal Court and the Land Registry (ZK) office in Mostar point out that “they hope that this open letter will stimulate an adequate reaction from the competent authorities at the level of the HNK, and that we will not be forced to seek the protection of our rights in court proceedings or through suspension of work .
“We believe that it is time to stop this kind of practice, and for the Government of the Croatian National Court to pass regulations that will prevent discrimination of civil servants and employees of the Municipal Court in Mostar compared to other employees of the same rank in the territory of the Croatian National Court. Ultimately, we hope that it will finally be uniform rights and obligations of all civil servants and employees of the FBiH. We would like to point out that we will not give up