SARAJEVO, Oct 5 (Hina) - The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights inBosnia-Herzegovina will notify government bodies of Bosnia and Croatiaas well as the Helsinki Committee in that neighbouring country aboutthe violation of rights of
Bosnian nationals who were unlawfullysacked from their jobs in Croatia without being given a possibility toexercise their rights in the pension and disability insurance fields,a Sarajevo daily reported on Tuesday.
SARAJEVO, Oct 5 (Hina) - The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in
Bosnia-Herzegovina will notify government bodies of Bosnia and Croatia as well
as the Helsinki Committee in that neighbouring country about the violation of
rights of Bosnian nationals who were unlawfully sacked from their jobs in
Croatia without being given a possibility to exercise their rights in the
pension and disability insurance fields, a Sarajevo daily reported on
Tuesday.According to some estimates, there were about 100,000 Bosnian workers in
Croatian companies before the war, and most of them who were not of Croat
origin were fired, mostly unlawfully, and were expelled. In this way they were
denied any right to legal protection or to exercising their acquired rights,
the Oslobodjenje daily said.
The Helsinki Committee in Bosnia held talks on the matter with the
leadership of the association called UGOR, which gathers some 7,000 Bosnians
who used to work in Croatia and whose employment contracts were terminated from
1992 to 1995.