The Management Board of the Employment Service has extended the mandate of the current acting director of that institution, Gzim Hajdinaga, until the selection of the director based on the 2022 competition is completed, as recently ordered by the Government Appeals Committee.
This is the result of a two-year dispute against the Human Resources Administration, the then Commission for Checking the Competence, Knowledge and Ability of Candidates, and then the Employment Agency, led by one of the candidates from the competition, David Perčobić, and the elected and later dismissed director of the Agency, Goran Folić.
The Management Board has familiarized itself with the previous decisions of the Administrative Court related to the appeals of Perčobić and Folic.
This is the fourth time that Hajdinaga has been elected as acting director of the Institute for six months each, because due to several administrative procedures, the situation could not be resolved according to the procedures that Perčobić led to challenge the competition from 2022, and Folić, who was elected at that contest in April 2022, contested his dismissal from October of the same year.
The Institute appealed to the Administrative Court against the Commission's decision to re-evaluate candidates from the 2022 competition, but it declared itself incompetent.
"The marathon dispute is coming to an end and now it is the duty of the Management Board of the Institute to send a letter to the Human Resources Administration, after the Administrative Court declared itself incompetent, to finally form a commission in accordance with the law. After the formation of the legal commission, it will rank the candidates again after evaluating their knowledge and abilities, and send that list to the Management Board to choose the director", said the interlocutor of "Vijesti" from the Management.
In the repeated procedure, the four former candidacies for director will be re-evaluated: David Perčobić, Goran Bubanja, Goran Folić and Svetlana Krgović.
The problems with the legal validity of the entire procedure for the selection of the director according to the competition from 2022 began even before the election itself, because as it was later determined in the Commission for Checking the Competence, Knowledge and Ability of Candidates, contrary to the Law, the then president of the Board of Directors of the Institute, Hadži, was in front of the Institute. Vesna Vujosevic.
On the basis of that competition, on April 7, 2022, the Institute's Board of Directors elected Goran Folic as the director, although after checking his knowledge and competences, he was third on the ranking list out of four candidates with scores. Folić was subsequently replaced, but that decision was also overturned several times.
In the explanation of the last decision, the Appeals Commission states that the candidates cannot bear the negative consequences due to the failure of the first-instance authority, the former Management Board of the Institute.
That is why they are asking for the formation of a new Commission for checking the competences, knowledge and abilities of candidates, which will continue the procedure and make a legal decision.
The Management Board of the Institute also adopted the Work Program for this year, according to which they plan to implement a set of measures and programs for more than two thousand unemployed people.
"In order to increase employability and employment on the open market, through the programs, support will be intended for young people and people with insufficient and inadequate education, women, members of the RE population, beneficiaries of material family security, as well as people who have been registered as unemployed for more than 12 months", it was stated in the announcement.
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