Today, on the website of the Official Gazette, with the date of Friday, November 3, the issue containing the decision of the Constitutional Court on the repeal of Article 17 paragraph 1 of the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance (PIO) was published.
The number was published on the website three days late due to, as they told "Vijesta", technical reasons.
The decision of the Constitutional Court entered into force on Saturday, November 4, so the provision according to which women could retire at the age of 64 and men at the age of 66 if they had a minimum of 15 years of service is no longer valid.
The Constitutional Court made a decision stating that men are discriminated against by this norm. The initiative for the review of constitutionality was submitted by the Judicial Council at the proposal of the Association of Judges, because female judges at the age of 64 and male judges at the age of 66 cease to hold office.
Now, the only requirement for a pension for all citizens is a full 40 years of insurance experience, until new changes to the law are made.
The Constitutional Court ordered the Government to adopt a new text of the law within 30 days, which must be in accordance with the Court's assessment that women must not be positively discriminated against in relation to men.
With this new proposal, the Government could return the decision to retire with a minimum of 15 years of service, but for men and women to be equal in terms of the number of required years of life, or to state a different explanation why women should have a more privileged status.
The Union of Free Trade Unions sent proposals to the Government and the Assembly to amend the law to define that both women and men can retire with a minimum of 15 years of service and 64 years of age.
The USS also requested that the procedure for the removal of judges of the Constitutional Court be initiated because they did not respect the Law on the Constitutional Court to organize a public debate on this issue, they did not inform the Assembly that Judge Draga Đuranović was eligible for an old-age pension and the termination of her judicial function in December, as well as because of that Judge Đuranović voted for the repeal even though she was in a direct conflict of interest because now that the Article of the Law has been repealed she does not have to retire and remains in that position.
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