Again, dubious elections in the Labor Fund

Tomorrow, the Board of Directors of the Labor Fund will hold interviews with the three best-ranked candidates for the director of that institution, and then elect the director for a five-year term.

It is disputed that in the invitation to the candidates, according to "Vijesti" information, they requested that they also submit the written work they had before the committee of the Human Resources Administration, in order to be re-scored, which is contrary to legal competences and current practice.

The Human Resources Administration (formerly the Human Resources Administration) announces competitions for the entire state administration and conducts testing and scoring of all candidates, and submits a list of the top three candidates to the institution for which the selection is made.

There were seven candidates on the test. On the test, the highest score, 43, was obtained by a long-time employee of the Labor Fund and its acting director from the period of the 42nd Government. Ana Mrdovic. Current acting director Jelisaveta Zorić Jović she had 36 points, and was the former secretary of the Ministry of State Administration until 2020 Vesna Ćalović 34,33 points.

This list of candidates was sent to the Management Board of the Labor Fund on May 18 of this year. However, at the session of June 6, the Board of Directors, by overvoting, came to the conclusion that, in addition to the curriculum vitae, the candidates must also submit the written work they had before the Human Resources Committee, in order for them to re-evaluate and score them. According to "Vijesti" information, the Human Resources Administration refused to participate in this.

The Management Board of the Labor Fund now has nine members - four representatives of the previous Government consisting of URA, SNP, DPS and minority parties, one employee representative, two from the Employers' Union and one each from the Union of Trade Unions and the Union of Free Trade Unions.

According to the information of "Vijesti", until now, in connection with this competition, representatives of employers, trade unions and a member of the DPS in front of the Government usually made up the majority. That group now allegedly agrees with the choice of Ćalovićka as director, which is why they asked that they evaluate the testing.

A similar situation was last year at the Employment Agency when the third-ranked person was chosen Goran Folić. The government commission later annulled that election, stating that it was illegal, because it was not explained why they voted for the third-ranked candidate.

Mrdović also had the most points on the test last year, but that competition was later cancelled.