White bread will be abolished after all: Law on salaries and allowances returned to the Council of Ministers

Members of the Constitutional and Legal Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (PSBiH) at the 26th session adopted a conclusion that the Proposal for the Law on Amendments to the Law on Salaries and Allowances in BiH Institutions be returned to the Council of Ministers of BiH because this Proposal needs to be harmonized with the Law on Amendments to the Law on Salaries and Allowances in BiH Institutions, published in the Official Gazette number 16/16, dated March 8, 2016, reports the Patria news agency.

We remind you that the delegates of the House of Peoples of the Parliament of BiH abolished the so-called white bread, but the Council of Ministers submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH a Proposal for the Law on Amendments to the Law on Salaries and Allowances in BiH Institutions, which envisages the return of this benefit right to elected and appointed officials after the expiration of their mandate.

Patria reported that the Council of Ministers, in the proposed amendments to the Law on Salaries and Allowances in BiH Institutions, envisages that elected and appointed persons in BiH institutions, after the termination of their mandate, have the right to a salary until the establishment of a new employment relationship or retirement, but for a maximum of six months from the cessation of public office.

This right would apply to members of the Presidency, deputies and delegates in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, and members of the Council of Ministers of BiH.

However, the Council of Ministers clarified that the Council of Ministers had sent the adoption of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Salaries and Allowances in BiH Institutions into procedure much before the decision of the House of Peoples to abolish the white bread.

- Now, after the decision of the House of Peoples of BiH, the same will be incorporated, through amendments and with the support of the Council of Ministers, into the final version of the Law on Salaries and Allowances in Institutions at the level of BiH – they say from the Council of Ministers.