Nezavisne novine: SARAJEVO – Employees of the Institute for Missing Persons (IMP) of BiH have not received salaries since the beginning of this year, because the Ministry of Finances and Treasury of BiH finds the Rulebook regulating these payments unacceptable.
This was confirmed yesterday in the department ministry, which did not give a positive opinion on the proposal by the Management Board on the salaries of the employees of the Institute.
Dušan Šehovac, the Chairman of the MB IMP BiH, said that this, as well as several other rulebooks, were adopted and paid to the Council of Ministers of BiH, who gave its approval.
"The employees do not receive salaries, because the treasury do not pay us the assets for that purpose. For a very long time we wait for the answers from the Ministry of Finances, and we also addressed the Ministry for Human Rights, which is in charge of the matters of the missing persons", said Šehovac.
Ranko Šakota, assistant of the minister of finances, says that they prepared the answer for the Institute, and that their Rulebook is not in accordance with the Law on Treasury.
"Basic salary set by the MB is not in accordance with the Law on Treasury, hot meal provision is calculated as a percentage of the salary, and the quotients are not the same as those used to calculate the salaries in the institutions of BiH", said Šakota.
The Law on Salaries in the Institutions of BiH is in the procedure, and the quotients should be on the basis of this law equalized in the BH Institutions.
"We are glad that the Ministry discussed our Rulebook after several months. If they had notified us on that until today, we could correct the possible mistakes and pay the salaries to the people", said Šehovac.
Šakota said that the final word on the Rulebook will be given by the Council of Ministers of BiH.
For the Directors of the Institute bigger salaries than for the members of the Presidency
As we found out, the employees with high school in the Institute would have a quotient of five, and according to the new Law on salaries quotient of 4.8 is stipulated for the managers of the BH institutions. Also, the member of the Collegium of Directors of the Institute, according to the proposed quotient would have a higher salary than the President of the Presidency of BiH.
"People who work on digging up the skeletons of missing persons enter the mine fields, they work on extremely hard and humane job, so we expected that it would be adequately paid to them", said Dušan Šehovac, the Chairman of the MB of the Institute for Missing Persons of BiH.