Employment and legal status of employees in units of local government

Abstract

Bearing in mind the legal status of employees in the Republic of Serbia and the complexity of legal regulations which determine their position, there is a clear need to regulate the status of employees in the local self-government. The adoption of a special law that could regulate this issue would complete the norms of our country concerning the employees in the state administration and local self-government. A special law for this category of employees is necessary for conceptual reasons. Actually, there is a need to make a distinction between the state administration and local self-government as the state administration is basically related to the state and the local self-government is related to a citizen. In both cases it is the issue of the realization of citizens' rights. In one case it is related to the state organs while in the other it is about the organs of the local self-government, and these organs have different competences. However, the reasons for establishing laws on public administration, civil servants and local government are similar. The motivation for enacting these special laws is the need to regulate the employment status of these categories in a specific way, different from the way in which the employment status is regulated according to the general regime of labor relations.