The heads of local offices of the State Chancellery and their assistants will be able to go to the Administrative Court in case of labor disputes, IPN reports, quoting a bill to abrogate point 15 of annex to the Law on the Administrative Court that was approved by the Cabinet.
The Law on the Administrative Court of February 10, 2000 specifies the 24 categories of state officials who represent special political or public interests and are not allowed to go to the Administrative Court in administrative cases. Among these are the President and the Speaker of Parliament, heads of the legislature’s standing commissions, judges of the Constitutional Court, president of the Audit Office and heads and deputy heads of local offices of the State Chancellery, as defined in point 15 of the annex.
The Constitutional Court declared as unconstitutional the prevention of this last category of functionaries from going to this court for the reason that the duties of these officials are not directly related to political activity, while the procedure for hiring and firing these is defined in special laws.
The goal of the Administrative Court, as a legal institution, is to counteract the misuse and abuse of power by the public authorities. Any person who considers his rights were violated by a public authority by an administrative act or by not dealing with an application on time can go to the Administrative Court to obtain the annulment or recovery of the damage, if it exists.
