Parliament to consider the president’s legislative initiative

On February 18, Parliament will discuss the legislative initiative of the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. It is about the increase of compensations for fired employees of different law enforcement agencies.

Today, the legal committee will hold first hearing of the draft amendments to the law on “State compensation and state academic scholarship”. It is important to say that, amendments on the same issue were initiated by the Ministry of Healthcare, Labour and Social Welfare too, which was presented to the parliament in January of 2013. The amendments are about compensations and calculation methods for the dismissed officers of the military and interior ministries, state special protection service and Investigation Service at the Ministry of Finance.

Furthermore, according to the President’s bill, compensation will be calculated in the following system – if compensation is granted to a person who is under 55, 1,5% of his/her salary by the time of dismissal will be multiplied with the length of his/her service in the law enforcement agencies; if person is between 55 to 60, 2% of his salary will be multiplied with the length of his service in the law enforcement agency; if he is between 60 and 65- 2.5% of his salary shall be multiplied with the length of his service; over 65, 3% of his salary shall be multiplied with the length of service in the law enforcement agencies.

Considering president’s initiative, law provisions in the compensation section work for the people having special status of state intelligence service that does not happen nowadays.

According to the bill, a paragraph is added to the law which estimates the quantity of different compensations for dismissed officers of law enforcement agencies who received a status of disabled people.

As for the government’s vision in this direction and the initiative that was submitted to the parliament by the Ministry of Healthcare, when calculating the compensation for dismissed officers, their salary should not be taken into consideration. Compensations shall be calculated in the following way: if a dismissed person is over 65, he will receive ordinary pension plus length of his service multiplied into two; junior officers or people with medium special status in the contracted military service will receive compensations equal to five fold of their length of service; senior military officers or people with senior special status will receive 10 fold of their length of service and people with super special status will have their compensations equal to 15 fold of their service length. If compensation is granted to a person under 65, he will receive a compensation equal to 80% of the compensation calculated in accordance to the aforementioned rule.

According to the draft-amendments, compensations will be calculated for the servants of public aviation. Besides this, the compensation will be calculated for former officers of law-enforcement agencies and public aviation, who received status of disabled person as well as for the families, whose dead member was officer of the law enforcement agency.

In accordance to the acting edition of the Law on State Compensation and State Academic Scholarship, person’s age, service length and official salary by the time of dismissal are taken into consideration.

                                                                                     Interpresnews