Gerti Shella: INFOCIP already has a full picture of effectively addressing the changes needed for delays and layoffs

February 11, 2019 – INFOCIP organized at the Hotel Rogner National Conference “Delays in Administrative Disputes and Court Matters, 2017, 2018″. In presenting the key findings, Director of INFOCIP, Gerti Shella stated that “The state is the largest employer in the Republic of Albania, with about 110 thousand budget employees. The 2016 amendments to the law violated this important principle by restoring judicial conflict between the state and its employees in civil court. Since last year, only employees who enjoy the status of civil servants can appeal to the administrative court. ”

“According to INFOCIP, there are only two ways to bring back these indicators in the deadline: either the State takes measures not to produce so much judicial conflict that goes through the courts, or the courts are filled with new judicial bodies,” Shella said. in presenting the findings of the study.

INFOCIP analyzed all final decisions of the Administrative Court of Appeal in 2018 and 2017, which concern cases registered from 2014 to 2016. In addition, INFOCIP has also evaluated all recourses dealing with “employment relations” in the Supreme Court, decided in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Shella, in his opening remarks, stated that “An INFOCIP study found that an employee who lost his job in the state waited 840 days (2.3 years) on court doors to find justice at both stages of the trial. If the recourse to recourse to the Supreme Court is added at this time, the average wait is 1730 days or about 4.7 years. These data represent the average of the last two years as measured by INFOCIP.