At today's 47th session of the Council of Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG), changes to the systematization for several positions in the public service were discussed, as well as the adoption of the report of the central census commission on the regular annual census of tangible and intangible assets, receivables and liabilities of RTCG.
The Regulation on Amendments to the Systematization of Job Positions stipulates that the position of accountant will be abolished, and that the term "economics" will be replaced with the words "all educational profiles".
Also, these amendments provide that the required experience for the position of fleet manager will be reduced to one year, instead of the previous three years of experience required.
A reduction in the number of years of experience is also planned for production positions, so for the chief animator, instead of three years, these changes require two years of experience, and for the head of the Atelier service, instead of the previous five years of experience, three years are required.
RTCG Council member Marijana Camović Velicković said that these changes degrade management positions, and that such changes lead to job placement.
"We will have managers with one year of work experience," said Camović Velicković.
She also raised the issue of the fact that no one from the union was present at today's Council session.
Assistant General Manager for Corporate Affairs Goran Rakočević explained that he had tried to contact the union today, but that the union president was out of the country, and that therefore none of them attended.
Camović Velicković responded that it was a shame that the union was notified today.
"You had an obligation to contact them, the union should be there for all working conditions, not just systematization. Mr. Rakočević, you are acting very nonchalantly. I appeal to you to stop this practice," she said.
Council member Amina Murić said that they are not acting nonchalantly towards the union.
"There are insinuations that we are doing something illegal, but in fact it is those who work for the interests of private companies and receive a salary from the public service," Murić replied to her.
Rakočevič said that the inventory revealed a shortage in liters of heating oil, which was determined to have leaked.
Rakočević said that ten to 12 thousand euros worth of heating oil had leaked, and that they suspected that someone had stolen it, but later the company that deals with it determined that there had been a leak.
Camović Velicković asked Ombudsman Ivan Ivanovic when he would respond to complaints that were submitted during the period when RTCG did not have an Ombudsman.
"All that remains is to contact the people who made those complaints. The ideal way is to call those people, to tell them that the time when the complaints were filed was a vacuum when the public service did not have an ombudsman," said Ivanovic.
Camović asked Ivanović if he had seen today's reaction from the Agency for Audiovisual Media Services (AMU) and whether he would react after the agency expressed concern about what they claim are tendentious and factually unfounded analyses by the RTCG portal, published in articles from March 8 under the title "Media Concentration in Montenegro: Ignoring Standards and Inadequate Reactions" (broadcast by TVCG 1 in Dnevnik 2), March 9 "Media Concentration: The State is Silent, Capital Dominates, Standards on Hold" and March 10 "International Reports on Media Concentration: Questionable Effectiveness".
He said that he had seen the texts in part and that he had not noticed that the text used data older than eight years, and that the Agency had contacted the Ombudsman and was expecting some reaction from them.
To this, the President of the RTCG Council, Veselin Drljević, responded: "We heard from the Vice President of the Council that some Agency reacted today - was it a reaction on the website or in the RTCG program or some other media?"
Camović responded that the reaction was published on the official website of the official Agency - which is the regulator of public service, so it is not "some" agency, but a key one.
Drljević said that he "just didn't hear which agency was in question."
The ranking list for apartments is not final, there were 45 comments
Today's agenda also included familiarization with the ranking list for resolving housing needs of RTCG employees, adopted by the Commission for resolving housing needs based on the Rulebook on resolving housing needs in RTCG.
A member of the commission, Vjekoslav Mikulić, said that the competition for interested parties was announced on November 27th, and that 191 applications were received. "We processed each one several times," said Mikulić.
The objections, of which there were 45, relate to the rules and scoring, and the ranking list has been made public, said Mikulić.
RTCG Director Boris Raonić said that the building for these purposes is in the final stages, and that it will be weeks before it is finished.
"We could complete the entire process during the second half of April," said Raonić, adding that the public service is in negotiations with banks that should provide favorable conditions for RTCG employees.
"We tried to get the most favorable conditions for our employees. Unfortunately, this initiative was also misinterpreted in public. There are also attempts to dispute that... The atmosphere in the media is such that even when you send a denial - that denial is not published," Raonic said at the meeting.
He said that employees who are on the ranking list will receive an apartment for 750 euros, "up and down - per square meter."
"Those apartments are something that will be fantastic for those 90 families. I expected the media reaction to be different," said Raonic.
Council President Veselin Drljević pointed out that the ranking list is not yet final.
"Things will go to the Council, or rather to a commission where there will be members of the Council. All members of the Council who wish to do so will have access to the comments. We can expand that commission with lawyers and an independent attorney," said Drljević.
He added that for the public, it should just be a number, "not sensationalism for injustice."
"It is up to us to correct the mistakes and be as fair as possible in this distribution of apartments. Nothing is final, these are numbers, this is preliminary, everything else is in the hands of the Council and the commission, and we are in the hands of the employees and the Montenegrin public," said Drljević.
Murić said that "all of us who wish well for the workers do not want to make a spectacle out of this and insinuate something bad."
"Our next step is to act on those complaints that have been filed," she said.
Raonic said the commission did a "fantastic job."
"I'm sorry that my hands are tied and I can't reward them. They had pressure from their colleagues, and people engaged in various abuses in order to achieve the right to an apartment. The commission didn't just read the documentation, they did everything in their power. All five of them did an excellent job," said Raonić.
Council member Naod Zorić said that he would not participate in the commission until the Administrative Court makes a decision.
The RTCG trade union has appealed to the Administrative and Constitutional Court over the controversial ranking list for allocating apartments to employees, claiming that the entire process is illegal and favors management loyal to CEO Boris Raonic. They accuse the management of financial malfeasance, non-transparent allocation of funds, and systemic discrimination against long-time employees, and announce criminal charges if the list is not annulled.
"I don't want to do something that would put me in the zone and cause me to make a mistake," Zorić said.
Drljević said he did not support his decision.
"Perhaps the goal of the opponents is precisely to ensure that this never ends," said Drljević.
Raonić also commented that if the commission determines that someone submitted false documentation to obtain an apartment on favorable terms, criminal charges should be filed against those people.
Camović Velicković said that she was approached by colleagues who were not on the ranking list, who are single mothers, including one who has four children.
"I was told that two of her four children were not ranked, and that they have serious disabilities, so I don't understand how someone in such a situation could not have received an apartment. The other one told me that the commission told her that they had lost a document that would have earned her five points, so that she should resubmit the documentation," said the vice president of the Council and asked Mikulić if he was aware of this, as well as whether the complaints were cosmetic or if there was still a possibility that something could be changed from that list.
He replied that he was aware of the cases.
"We received information from the lawyer that he must treat the case of single-parenthood," Mikulić replied, adding that the document was not lost, and that all documents were in his personal safe, and that perhaps one of his colleagues overlooked the document and did not look at it. If we happen to make a mistake, we will correct it," Mikulić said.
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