Other events in Baltic States

The Tallinn Administrative Court declared on Tuesday the Government’s decree re-appointing Henn Pärn as the Public Conciliator invalid, writes LETA/Postimees Online.

Thus the court agreed with the complaint filed by the Estonian Confederation of Trade Unions and the Estonian Central Organisation of Civil Servants’ Professional Unions.

The organisations claimed that re-appointment of Pärn was not in accordance with the law and hence the Government’s decree from December 10, 2009 is to be declared invalid.

In January, the trade union organisations turned to court, stating that the Government violated the law by not taking into account the proposals from the trade unions in appointing the Public Conciliator. The Government’s decree lacked legal basis as it was made without achieving an agreement between the employees’ and employers’ organisations.

The trade union organisations stated that in compliance with the agreement, the candidate for the Public Conciliator’s post was to be presented by trade unions and employers’ representatives had to either approve or reject the candidacy. The Confederation of Trade Unions proposed for the position Ago Tuuling, chairman of the Central Organisation of Civil Servants’ Professional Unions, but according to the chairman of trade unions Harri Taliga, the Confederation of Employers failed to give any responses to the candidacy.