Representative unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina institutions require amendments to the Law on Salaries and Fees in BiH institutions in the manner that the application of the salary calculation base does not depend on the BiH budget adoption.
This will wait until September, and then most likely to follow mass lawsuits employed through litigations that are convinced in unions, and get.
The letter and proposal to amend the Law on Wages were submitted to all representative clubs in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina a ten days ago, but no one answered them yet.
– We want to correct the illegality in the application of the Budget Base in the Constitutional and Legal deadlines – stand out from the BiH State Officials, the Covenant of the BiH Police Offices and the UIO of the BiH Indirect Taxation (UIO) BiH.
According to the Law on Wages, the basis for calculation of salaries is applied only after the adoption of the budget. Entity laws do not have a provision like this. At the state level, it is almost a statistical error that the budget is adopted in the Law provided within the deadline, which is that the budget for the next year is adopted by the end of the year. There is no sanction of the violation of the legal deadlines, and is only possible at the state level, possible for the whole year on temporary funding.
The basis for paying forces in BiH institutions for this year is 631.5 km, which is the Council of Ministers of BiH, but last year’s basis of 600 KM was still adopted by the BiH Institution’s Budget for 2025.
– We’re sending letters, Urgence. We see the situation. It’s all in the blockade. The government does not work, and we depend on them. We will wait until September. Amendments to the law have suggested that the budget includes funding for the whole year, which results in the position of salaries and benefits that have been spent in other things for years, and it is actually part of our salaries. That way, they deprobate us and loot, “Ana Mrnjavac warned, President UIO.
It points out that the entity laws did not condition the application of the new base by adopting the budget, but it is applied from 1. January, so that employees in BH. Institutions suffer severe discrimination against employees in lower authorities.
The synults stressed that amendments to the Law on Wages need to be made and to avoid lawsuits due to the application of the collective agreement, which implies an automatic annual correction base without binding for a new budget.
They are convinced that such lawsuits, “in accordance with the attitudes of the Entity Courts and the Constitutional Court of BiH, will certainly be successful”, which will be able to pay for the costs and default interest, “which will cause millions of budget damage,” it says Factor.
