The verdict on the lawsuit filed by Vladana Vučinić, an employee of the Radio and Television of Montenegro, will be handed down within a month, it was said yesterday after Jelena Nelević, editor and journalist of the "Pobjeda" newspaper, was heard as a witness before the Basic Court in Podgorica.
Vučinić initiated court proceedings against the publishers of the daily newspapers "Vijesti" and "Pobjeda", the deputy president of the RTCG Council Marijana Camović Veličković and citizen Danojla Raičević, claiming that her honor, reputation and right to privacy were violated by the publication of the annex to the contract last November. With the lawsuit, she demands that Raičević and "Vijesti" pay her 4.000 euros each, and Camović Veličković and "Pobjeda" 3.000 euros each.
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"The question of the salary of the employees of the Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG) is always interesting, because it is a public service and I thought it was necessary to write an article about it," said Nelević yesterday during her testimony.
Documents and annexes to the contract appeared on social networks in November last year, according to which, according to the interpretations of some of the public, Vučinić should receive a salary of around 2.500 euros, after which the media reported it.
Earlier, during the main hearing before the Podgorica court, Vučinić said that due to the large volume of work in 2023, she spoke with her immediate superior at the time, TVCG director Marija Tomašević, asking for an increase in her salary, which at that moment amounted to 836 euros, and that she was told that he will think about it after consultation with the General Manager, Legal and Financial Services.
"After some time, we started concluding Annex V of the employment contract, and it was previously agreed that my basic salary would be followed by an increase of some 400 euros. It is true that I read the offer and annex V of the contract, I saw that the coefficient of 1,70 for the increase in earnings was written in the annex, but I did not pay attention to that in the sense that I was checking the amount of the increase, all in the belief that it would be as it was as previously agreed. Not long after the conclusion of the contract, a colleague from the finance department asked me if I was sure about the concluded annex, that is, if I had the right to this increase. I explained to her that I had agreed to an increase in salary of around 400, to which she told me that according to this contract, I would receive a salary of around 2.000 euros," said Vučinić, according to the court minutes from the hearing.
She said before the court that it would be neither logical nor possible, because she would have a higher salary than her immediate superior, so it is obvious that the written evidence confirms that this was not the goal of concluding Annex V of the employment contract and that she was never paid her wages under that contract.
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