April 2014
Press relase: Audit Subjects Not Complying with SAI’s Requests
30. 04. 2014.
Institut alternativa’s research indicates that half of institutions that were audited by the State Audit Institution (SAI) in the last year have not complied with the obligation to submit reports on the implementation of the SAI’s recommendations. Auditees that did not submit the report on the fulfillment of the recommendations are: Municipality of Bijelo Polje,…
Press release: Instead of praises, prosecution reports to be realistic
25. 04. 2014.
Reports on the work of the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office mostly consist of statistics and ignore concrete problems in the work of this institution, although a number of issues in its work are indicated by the expert community. The conclusions from the last report of the State Prosecutor’s Office from 2012 are, in fact, positive…
Commentary on the draft Law on wages in the public sector
22. 04. 2014.
Institute Alternative (IA) in its 2008 analysis on wages and rewards policies in Montenegro’s public administration recommended that one legal act should regulate wages in regulatory bodies and local and state administration authorities. We thus support the decision of Ministry of Finance to draft the Law on wages of public sector employees, which would be…
Press release: Performance appraisal of state administration employees lacks criteria
17. 04. 2014.
Grades of state employees for previous year do not reflect their actual performance, as demonstrated by the case of Administration for Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, whose all employees, without exception, were assessed as excellent. Law on civil servants and state employees and the Decree regulating their performance appraisal envisage continuous monitoring…
II module of the 2014 Public Policy School
15. 04. 2014.
Lectures within the Second module of the 2014 Public Policy School were held on April 12th and 13th, at the premises of PR Center. The topic of this module, “Public Policy Analysis”, was presented by Snežana Đorđević, PhD, professor at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade. (Agenda – only in Montenegrin)…
Press release: Rewards of Public Servants Shouldn’t Be Misused
08. 04. 2014.
The draft Law on wages of public sector employees leaves big discretion to the Government and local administration authorities to define salary supplements and variables aimed at motivating and attracting the experts into the sector. This document makes increase and decrease of the wage dependent upon the budget revenues and expenditure. Wage supplements and variables…