Glas Srpske: Sarajevo – Unions of security of the BiH agencies, the SIPA and the ISA, of the Border Police and of the Indirect Taxation Authority demand from the Council of Ministers of BiH and from the Parliament of BiH to have their salaries increased, with a warning that unless their demands are met, not even a strike is excluded.
The president of the Union of the State Agency for Investigation and Protection (SIPA), Mesud Ormanović, declared that police officers of the cantons and of the entities have salaries higher on average by 400 marks than the members of the Border Police and of the SIPA.
Salaries should be in accordance with a difficulty of the job we have. If our demands are not met, a strike is possible as well. These professions are not to be toyed with, but somebody is obviously toying with our incomes – Ormanović pointed out.
Union officials are requesting increase in salaries in relation to present ones by 25 to 35 per cent.
Salaries of ordinary police officers in the SIPA are inadmissibly low even with the additional provision of around 640 marks. Inspector in the SIPA, with additional provision has a salary of 1.100 marks, and in the Federal Ministry of Interior or in the Sarajevo Canton, he earns 400 marks more – said Ormanović.
Spokesperson of the Indirect Taxation Authority, Ratko Kovačević, said that this institution, since its establishment in 2005 until today, was left voluntarily by 220 people, of which 113 had a university degree.
Year after year, the ITA is being left by more and more people. The basic reason is low salaries, which have not been raised since the establishment of the ITA. Inspectors in the ITA have a salary of 1.000 to 1.100 marks.
Salaries in all other services both on entity and on the level of cantons have been raised, while our salaries stagnate. Our Union asks for increase in salaries by 25 per cent – said Kovačević and added that Director of the ITA has a contracted salary of 5.000 marks.