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Commentary on the draft Law on wages in the public sector
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
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
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
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…
Flawed, unfinished business
The Administrative Committee has brought disgrace upon itself and this must be said loud and clear. Negative mutual solidarity of the Committee members expressed in a particular crisis situation will be marked as a dark page in the history of this Committee and the Parliament of Montenegro. Imagine the following situation. It is stipulated in…
Press release: Budva, Ulcinj, Žabljak and Rožaje still without action plans for fight against corruption
Activity from the Action Plan for Chapter 23 relating to the adoption of the local action plans for fight against corruption has not been implemented fully in accordance with the stipulated period – end of 2013. As of 31 March 2014, four municipalities have not yet adopted a strategic document for the fight against corruption…