Dozens of civil servants who have won court battles for unfair dismissals continue to remain on the waiting list, even after securing final decisions for reinstatement.
According to available data, even though the administration had 1,760 vacant positions, 134 employees who won their reinstatement lawsuits continue to be unsettled, creating a hidden bill for the budget.
Data published by the Commissioner for Civil Service Oversight shows that the problem is no longer related to the lack of a legal decision, but to the administration's inability to find regular positions in the organizational structure for their execution.
According to the report, for the period 2023–2024, 189 final court decisions for reinstatement were registered in the state administration.
Of these, the institutions have managed to execute only 55 cases, or 29.1%, while 70.9% of the decisions, or 134 cases, still remain unexecuted. According to them, 134 civil servants continue to remain on the waiting list, while the state administration reported 1,760 vacant job positions during 2024 alone.
This creates a double cost for the state. On the one hand, institutions remain exposed to arrears, damages, and litigation costs.
On the other hand, job openings remain blocked for new recruitments, as the organizational structures must make room for the execution of existing decisions. This turns the waiting list of court winners into a real obstacle to the normal flow of public administration.
The report highlights this issue as a specific problem in the civil service system, separating it into a separate annex for the cases of civil servants who are currently awaiting placement in a job position.
Beyond the individual aspect of each case, this signals that the administration continues to suffer from a lack of flexibility in human resource management and from the difficulty in absorbing returns after prolonged legal processes.
For the public sector labor market, the effect is knock-on: new competitions are postponed, parallel moves are slowed down, and decision-making on new structures becomes more cautious, as every vacant position may have to be used for a pending winner.
In budgetary terms, this translates into a bill that is not immediately visible in salaries, but is reflected in lower efficiency and hidden administrative costs./Monitor.al/
