For compensation due to unused vacations, the Capital City of Podgorica paid 2022 euros in the period from 2024 to 106.805,38. Of that sum, almost half, 45.089,1 euros, was awarded to 30 employees of the Public Institution for Accommodation, Rehabilitation and Resocialization of Users of Psychoactive Substances - Podgorica, on Kakaricka Gora. Compensation was paid for unused vacations from 2009 to 2023.
On the basis of the settlement agreed at the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, on March 25, 2022, the Secretariat for Finance of the Capital City paid a group of 15 employees of the Ju Kakaricka gora, on the basis of compensation for unused annual leave in the period from 2009 to 2019. is first 16.008,90 euros of the basic debt and 7 more for interest for court executions from the employment relationship.236,85 euros.
The capital city also paid 605 euros for the lawyer's representation costs and 63,28 euros for the mediator's award. Marko Ivanovic.
And at the second mediation, held on July 1, 2022, an agreement was reached on a settlement between part of the employees and this public institution, on the basis of which, at the end of 2022, benefits will be paid to another group of employees in JU Kakaricka gora. For 13 people due to not using annual vacations in the period 2008-2019. year, a compensation of 16.861,84 euros was paid.
In May 2023, another 6.240,67 euros were paid to the workers of this public institution.
However, it does not end there. Two more mediations will be held on September 12, 2022 and April 25, 2023, at the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Podgorica. Both times, a settlement agreement was reached, on the basis of which another 13 employees received compensation for not using annual leave.
In the Public Institution for Accommodation, Rehabilitation and Resocialization of Users of Psychoactive Substances on Kakaricki Gora, they say that in the period from 2009 to 2019, "employees did take annual vacations, but the length of their vacation was not determined according to all the bases of the Branch collective agreement for health and social activity that was valid in the disputed period".
"During the previous leadership of the Public Institution, in the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution on February 23, 2022, according to the Minutes of Mediation, a settlement was signed between 15 employees and the Public Institution based on the unused part of the vacation due to the omitted criterion of the complexity of the workplace and the social criterion - based on children, in the disputed period of 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, ending with 2019 in the amount that will be calculated by the Secretariat for Finance of the Capital City of Podgorica. These agreements served as the basis for the adoption of the Decision on initiated mediation procedures", the director stated in the answer Marko Čađenović who was paid 2.340,27 euros on this basis.
However, the settlement text referred to by Ćađenović does not mention "omitted criteria", but instead states "damage due to unused vacations" as the basis for the payment of compensation.
The director of this public institution did not answer the question why it took 13 years to raise this issue and whether anyone was held responsible for this omission.
In response, Čađenović submitted the agreements that the Public Institution for Accommodation, Rehabilitation and Resocialization of Psychoactive Substance Users - Podgorica signed with the employees on September 23, 2022, after they had already signed twice before, on March 25 and July 1, 2022. . In those agreements, the "omitted criterion - the complexity of the workplace" is stated as the basis for the payment of compensation.
The remaining part of the compensations paid due to the non-use of annual vacations mostly refers to the employees of the City Administration of the Capital City.
First radio, Željko Titić, head of the Department for Administrative-Legal and Other Administrative Supervision at the Secretariat for Transport, whose employment was terminated by force of law on June 2, 2022, for unused annual leave in 2020, 2021 and 2022, was compensated with a total of 2.509,14 euros.
Among those who also received compensation on this basis are local officials Zorica Vukcevic (187,14) Mima Boricic (376,83) Radoje Sekulić (1.243,20) and Milena Tošić (1.043,87)
Mayoress Olivera Injac issued a decision on compensation for damages on June 7, 2023 Marko Rakočević, the secretary of the Secretariat for Communal Affairs, who was paid 2018 euros in gross amount for the unused vacation days from 2023 to 7.597,57.
Due to non-use of annual leave in the period from 2018 to 2023, Milan Šupić, former director of the Public Revenue Administration, received 6.509,09 euros, and the request was accepted Mladen Ilic, former director of the Directorate for Property, for the payment of compensation for unused vacations from 2018 to 2023. On this basis, a total of 10.108,63 was paid to Ilić.
Radomir Pješčić, the former head of the Podgorica fire department, and then for some time the mayor's adviser, at one time known for the purchase of a three-thousand cubic meter Range Rover jeep, who later became the former mayor Slavoljub Stijepović took away from the Protection and Rescue Service, according to the judgment of the Basic Court of March 28, 2023, 2017 euros for the year 1.132,9 and 2019 euros for the year 971,06 in the name of compensation for material damage due to unused vacation legal default interest. He was also reimbursed for the costs of the procedure in the amount of 482,36 euros.
Pješčić's request to be paid another 2017 euros for 399,50, with statutory default interest from December 19, 2022, 2019 for 191,87, and 2018 euro for XNUMX, was rejected. with legal default interest from judgment to final payment.
This case reached the High Court, which rejected the appeal and confirmed the judgment of the Basic Court.
In the period from January 1 to October 10, 2024, the Capital paid compensations Goran Janković, commander of the Protection and Rescue Service, Krst Pejović, to the head of the Sector for Communal-Housing Activities of the Municipal Police, The only Serhatlić, an independent consultant, Miloš Novović, to the Chief of the Communal Police, and Žani Filipović, employed at the Cultural and Information Center "Budo Tomović".
"News" got this information with the help of the MANS application "Ask the institutions".
Pješčić's maybe it is, maybe it isn't
Radomir Pješčić was heard as a litigant in the court proceedings for compensation for not using annual leave. As stated in the verdict, he stated that he was the commander of the fire department until 2015, and that since then he worked as an advisor to the mayor. After the mayor changed in 2017 and Stijepović was replaced by Ivan Vuković, Pješčić said that he experienced mobbing at work and that he left the post of mayor's adviser "sometime in 2020", but he did not lead procedures to protect against mobbing.
Pješčić could not remember that Ii worked on weekdays between New Year's and Christmas holidays. He could not even remember that he used annual leave for 2017, 2018 and 2019, but he knew that he "once used part of the leave", but he could not remember when. There is a possibility, said the former head of the Podgorica fire department, that he requested to use annual leave for 2018, "but also that he did not because he was working in the Fire Department at the time." In particular, he stated that his signature was on the request for annual leave for 2018, and that from 2017 to 2020 he was not allowed to use annual leave, and that it is possible that he used sick leave.
The employees did take annual vacations, but the length of their vacation was not determined according to all the bases of the Branch collective agreement for health and social work that was valid during the disputed period.
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