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Serbia Government Salary Controversy
Belgrade | 24 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
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The head of the Serbian parliamentary speaker's cabinet has a higher salary than the speaker herself, the country's prime minister, and all his deputies and cabinet ministers.
Fonet news agency reports that the country's president is the only one whose monthly income is higher than the 1,320 euros that the cabinet's chief Danica Milovanovic earns per month.The base salaries of the president, members of parliament, the speaker, the state prosecutor and other public officials. have been set by the Administrative Board of the Serbian Parliament, while incomes of other employees depend on the state budget.
Therefore, assistants to ministers can make more than ministers and deputy prime ministers.
The salaries of elected persons are determined in accordance with the Law on Salaries in the State Bodies and Public Services, while the Law on Salaries of the State Employees determine salaries of employees in professional and assistant services of the state apparatus.
Apart from these two laws, certain government decisions have removed some employees from that legal framework, Fonet reports.
