THE SALARY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS IN MACEDONIA (DE LEGE AND DE FACTO)
The subject of this paper is the salary of public servants as an institut of economic and legal nature, the manner of its establishment, the basis, as well as the legal criteria on which the calculation is based. The general assumption is that administrative officials in our country are divided into two large groups depending on whether they are employed in state bodies and local government bodies (civil servants) or in a public sector institution that performs public service (public servants). Considering the fact that it is the same type of employees who perform public interest matters, the assumption is the existence of de lege equal salary for an equal qualification level and title. The legal treatment of this institute refers to the conclusion that there is no imbalance in the result of all the determined parameters and criteria. But the direct application of the same provisions of the same law shows the presence of practical inconsistencies and different results for the same phenomenon, ie, an unequal salary for the same group of administrative officials. The idea is to perceive the selective approach in the application of such legal provisions and the consequences of such discriminatory potency. This means that there are situations where there is no equitable salary. The occurrence is more frequent when the administrative public official requests de facto application of the legal norms regarding the establishment of his salary according to the status of an official, thus starting the period of application of the right to equal access in determining the amount of salary of the administrative officials in accordance with the law. This research implements the method of analysis of the content of laws and other professional literature, as well as the still small number of filed and completed court cases in labor disputes. The results point to the conclusion that there is an equal legal basis but an unequal approach in calculating the salary of public and civil servants.