The employees of "Čistoća" are not like City officials

The Labor Law applies to the employees of the city company "Čistoća", so they cannot be equated with colleagues who are officials and employees of the Capital City when solving housing needs.

This results from the answer of the director of "Čistoća" Andrije Čađenović, in connection with the controversial regulation by which the employees of that company were discriminated against during the allocation of apartments...

The protector of human rights and freedoms determined that the rulebook, on the basis of which Podgorica's "Čistoća" solves the housing needs of its employees, is discriminatory because the employees are in a less favorable position compared to "personnel of special importance" for that company.

Buying an apartment under favorable conditions for employees implies only a reduction of the market price per square meter of living space for communal equipment of construction land. On the other hand, the price of an apartment for personnel of special importance, such as the executive director and his deputies, can be reduced by up to 80 percent for several reasons.

The Protector found that officials and employees in Čistoca do not have the same treatment as their colleagues in the Capital City, because the contested rulebook does not contain any of the grounds for reducing the price of an apartment from the Decision on Dismissal of Local Officials and Employees from the City Administration.

Čađenović told "Vijesta" yesterday that "Čistoća" was founded by a decision of the Assembly of the Capital City and organized in accordance with the Law on Business Companies as a limited liability company.

"The provisions of the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees cannot be applied to the work of this company, as well as other by-laws related to the aforementioned law, which is why 'Cistoća', in order to perform the activity for which it is registered, adopts the Statute, the Collective Agreement and other acts , internal instructions and regulations", he pointed out.

Čađenović assessed that the Decision on solving the housing needs of local officials and employees of the Capital City cannot be applied to the employees of this company, whose rights and obligations derive from the employment relationship defined by the contract and the Labor Law.