News in English     | 01.09.2020. 13:24 |

BiH PA HoP rejects several laws on austerity measures

FENA Hana Imamović

SARAJEVO, September 1 (FENA) - Deputies of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina did not adopt at today's session the Bill on the Law on emergency austerity measures in the BiH institutions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This legal proposal envisaged a ban on the use of funds earmarked for representation expenses in BiH institutions until the end of this year, the abolition of the right to holiday allowance, jubilee awards, and fees for education and professional training.

The bill also implied the abolition of the incentives, hot meals, compensation for overtime work, night work and work during holidays, as well as compensation for separate living, business travel, transportation, and retirement severance pay for all officials and deputies by the end of 2020.

Namely, the deputies accepted the negative opinion of the Constitutional - Legal Committee on that legal solution, as well as on the Draft Law on Mandatory Contributions of Officials in BiH Institutions for the fight against pandemic, which means that this proposal was not accepted either.

The deputies also rejected the amendments to the Law on Salaries and Remunerations in the Institutions of BiH, proposed by the House of Representatives. These amendments to the law would limit the amount of severance pay to 12 average salaries in BiH. This would leave the minimum amount of severance pay as before, 5.364 KM, but the maximum amount of severance pay would be limited to 10.728 KM.

After this outcome at the session, MP of the Bosniak caucus Denis Bećirović (Social Democratic Party - SDP) said that all austerity measures were rejected and called on the Council of Ministers to submit new austerity measures at the state level in another way.

“How dare you vote like this, is it possible that in such a socio-economic situation, during a pandemic and when people lose their jobs, you reject all proposals for any measures. Not only is it politically incorrect, it is also not moral towards the citizens,” Bećirović believes.

An MP of the Croat caucus, Marina Pendeš (Croat Democratic Union - HDZ), assessed that these are populist laws and that it is not clearly specified where the funds will be directed.

The deputies did not accept the request of the BiH Council of Ministers to consider the Draft Law on Interim Measures in the work of judicial and other bodies during a natural or other disaster in Bosnia and Herzegovina under urgent procedure, as well as the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Misdemeanors.

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