Is there discrimination in the law on non-working days paid?
The House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina will declare 30 December on the bill on non-working, paid days during the religious holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to which the believers, employed in all institutions, organizations and companies should have five paid days off during religious holidays. At issue is the only thing you have left out those citizens who do not identify themselves as believers.
BiH Council of Ministers and is sent into the parliamentary procedure a Bill on non-working days during the religious holidays in our country. The law provides the same number - five days off for members of all vjerskh community in BiH.
Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006 concluded a Master Agreement with the Holy See, and in October 2007 with the Orthodox Church, and committed itself to a special law offices non-working days for Catholics and Orthodox. During the conclusion of agreements with the Islamic community of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The question is why are they left out people who are not believers declared.
"All these considerations in what is the capacity of the parliament needs to be clarified. In fact, it is a thing that must be done in a way that it is done in the EU," said Fehim Škaljić, deputy SBB in the House of Representatives Parliamentary Assembly.
And it is well known that in our country everything is not in line with the European Union. This bill is a direct violation of human rights, since it explicitly refers to members of religious communities of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks and Jews, according to the organization Human Rights House. "Everyone has the right to be agnostic, atheist, skeptic, after all, and may not even pronounce so, but thus nobody has the right, least of all the countries that it discriminates in relation to the majority," says Dzenana Karup from the Human Rights House.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs proposed the law, arguing that it does not discriminate and that they complied with all The long values of tolerance and coexistence in BiH.
"It is believed that the bill does not contain discriminatory provisions, given that it allows everyone to exercise their right to paid leave during religious holidays, at the same time without affecting the rights of every individual to freedom of religious choice not or commitment," states, among other , the opinion of the Ministry.
The Ombudsman for Human Rights consider it necessary to legislate the end of this area and to ensure equal treatment for all citizens, "BiH Ombudsmen recognize that all the legal solutions that partially govern this area may threaten the long-term application of international standards on human rights in BiH, and lead to violations of the Constitution. "
The law could be improved in order to avoid discrimination. "There is a possibility that the various amendments and those who do not express their worldview through faith and practice, and to them the appropriate number of working days pay as well as those who are declared believers," says Halid Genjac, head of the Bosniak Caucus in the House of Peoples of the PA.
After the session the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliament, on 30 December will be the way that they, who do not identify themselves as believers, exercise their right to days off.
- 28 Dec, 2015
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