ZAGREB, May 5 (Hina) - Complaints about problems in social care, health, pension system and workers' rights made up for a third of all complaints received by the Croatian Ombudsman's Office in 2002, said the parliament's Labour,
Health Care and Social Policy Committee on Monday.
ZAGREB, May 5 (Hina) - Complaints about problems in social care,
health, pension system and workers' rights made up for a third of
all complaints received by the Croatian Ombudsman's Office in 2002,
said the parliament's Labour, Health Care and Social Policy
Committee on Monday. #L#
Of the 336 complaints from this area, most pertain to the work of the
Croatian Institute for Pension Insurance and violations of
workers' rights, says a report on the ombudsman's work for 2002,
which the parliament's committee discussed today.
Citizens wait for a year and more to realise their right to a
pension, and labour disputes last six years, the committee's
chairwoman, Snjezana Biga-Friganovic, said.
A representative of the Croatian Institute for Pension Insurance
admitted that all claims from the report were correct and said that
the Institute would draw a lesson from it.
Committee members said they were glad that the number of complaints
was decreasing and that issues of which the ombudsman was in charge
were becoming more of the nature of issues dealt with by ombudsmen
in other countries.
The committee members said that complaints by Croatian Homeland War
veterans and victims were lessening from a share of 15 percent of
all complaints in 1998 to 11% last year.
The report indicates that ownership rights were mostly threatened
in areas of special state concern.
In this context, a government official announced that some 3,600
property owners who had submitted a request for property
restitution could repossess their property by the end of this
summer, while the problem of all temporarily occupied property
should be solved by the end of the year.
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