The media center assessed that the finding of the Labor Inspection "in connection with the third illegal appointment of the general director of RTCG" is evidence that this inspection body "is still under political influence".
After the recent changes in the legislation and the abolition of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs, the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Dialogue, headed by Naida Nišić, now has direct political influence over this inspection.
"The labor inspection and acting inspector Azren Vučetović deliberately misinterpret the facts in the process of appointing the general director of RTCG and treat the third appointment of the general director as the second. Article 35 of the Law on the National Public Broadcaster RTCG stipulates that 'the same person can be appointed as general director for a maximum of two The acting inspector determines that Boris Raonic was appointed three times, but considers that this is not a violation of the law from the mandate established by the law, represent an obstacle for his third appointment. If the legislator wanted to bind to the 'mandate' the allowed number of years that one person can spend in the position of general director, then it would have been written that way "the possibility of electing the same person to the position of general director," states the statement signed by Media Center Director Goran Đurović.
They also add that the acting inspector, in the first-instance decision, accepts that Raonic's work experience "includes the years he spent illegally (according to final court rulings) as general director".
"The Labor Law has precisely established that work experience 'means the time spent in a casual relationship and professional training in accordance with the law, in the qualification of the level of education.' work experience and including the necessary 5 years of work experience, how much must a candidate for the general director of RTCG have? whether the time someone illegally spent in office can be treated as legitimate work experience".
They point out that in today's transmission of the inspection findings, RTCG "hides this sentence from the public in order not to deepen doubts about the findings of the acting inspector and to mislead the public that the findings of the Labor Inspectorate are inviolable in terms of the assessment of the legality of the procedure".
"The reliability of the findings of the Labor Inspection and the findings of the second-level body (competent ministry) is best shown by the ruling of the Administrative Court from April this year, which annulled the decision of the Inspection and the Ministry that the inspection bodies cannot review the decisions of the RTCG Council. After 28 months, the Administrative Court accepted the complaint Media Center and annulled the decision of the former Ministry of Economic Development from the 42nd government of Zdravko Krivokapić, which confirms the first-instance decision of the Labor Inspectorate, and which rejects the evaluation of the legality of the procedure for the appointment of the general director of RTCG carried out in August 2021. We remind you that the Labor Inspectorate refused to determine the legality of the procedure for appointing Raonic in August 2021 and June 2023, declaring himself incompetent. Now, apparently, the Labor Inspectorate has become competent, but it is still doing its work illegally."
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The Media Center adds that the third appointment of Raonic to the position of General Director of RTCG will be assessed again by the court in a procedure that will last several years.
"There is a high probability that Raonic, with political support, will illegally spend seven years as the general director of RTCG. The damage caused to the budget of RTCG, i.e. the budget of all citizens, is so far over 160.000 euros (illegally paid wages to Raonic). For all this time From 2020 until today, no one in the government thought of putting pressure on the Labor Inspectorate, to extend the competences of the Protector of Property and Legal Interests of Montenegro to public companies (so that they could initiate the procedure for the return of the illegally acquired earnings of Raonic and others like him). RTCG and other institutions are still trapped, and the fact that representatives of almost all political parties got the opportunity to say what they want on RTCG does not mean that the public service has become much better he is allowed to criticize the government because the general director has been blackmailed and his current political mentors Andrija Mandić, Milojko Spajić, Milan Knežević can remove him from his position whenever they want," Đurović concluded.
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