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Press statement | 18.05.2022

Recommendation to Tuzla University

Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and HerzegovinaHuman Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Institution of Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina received A.K.’s complaint indicating Tuzla University as the respondent party. The complainant approached IHROBiH concerning a competition procedure, i.e. the requirements set in the said competition.

The complaint indicated that there was a public vacancy for the position of Librarian opened at Tuzla University. One of the requirements set in the vacancy was holding the COBISS programme equipment licence. According to the complainant’s claims, the licence to operate in the COBISS system can only be obtained if the person is employed by a national, public, people’s, university or some other library or a library which is a member of the COBISS system in BiH. Therefore, the said licence cannot be obtained independently.

Following the investigation procedures, IHROBiH sent Recommendation P-104/22 to Tuzla University on 14 April 2022, indicating that by setting and defining such requirement in the competition procedure, Tuzla University considerably reduced the possibility of hiring bachelors of library science and violated the principle of equal access to employment. This ultimately put candidates in an unequal position, which in practice can lead to an unequal treatment of participants in competition procedures. The Recommendation recommended Tuzla University to align the internal documents with the Librarianship Act and the Rulebook on Professional Titles, Requirements and Methods for Acquiring Professional Titles in Librarianship in Tuzla Canton.

IHROBiH received Tuzla University response no 01-2240-2/22 dated 10 May 2022 concerning its recommendation P-104/22 dated 13 May 2022 and containing the information that the Tuzla University Vice-Chancellor submitted to the Managing Board, which issues the Rulebook on the Internal Organisation and Classification of Posts, the proposal to delete from the Rulebook the requirement of “holding the COBISS programme equipment licence” as a separate requirement, on the proviso that Tuzla University will subsequently enable the person who starts working in the given position and does not hold the said licence, to get the training and obtain the licence. Furthermore, the response indicated that Tuzla University requested a ruling from the line ministry concerning the concerned proposal for the Rulebook, and indicated that the Tuzla University Board of Directors, at the session of 27 April 2022, accepted the claims from the IHROBiH Recommendation and found that by conducting the vacancy procedure the complainant was discriminated against in terms of the right to equal employment opportunities and equal access to the position. By Decision no 04-2352-1-8/22 it adopted A.K.’s complaint and cancelled the Employment Decision. Also, the University Vice-Chancellor was instructed to cancel the vacancy for indefinite employment of one incumbent to the position of Librarian, which was complied with the Decision dated 9 May 2022 and published in the Dnevni avaz daily on 10 May 2022.



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