“The speedy, without further delay, completion of the actions is imperative”
The passing of a law to equalize the salaries of military judges with those of regular judges, civil, criminal and administrative justice is required in order to implement the relevant constitutional provision states in a decision of the Salary court.
With its irrevocable decision, the Salary Court (2/2024) rejected the lawsuit of 35 judges of the Armed Forces who requested that the State be obliged to pay them the differences between the salaries paid to them and those of the judges of the civil courts.
In their appeal, the judges of the Armed Forces, referring to the Constitution, noted that it mandates the equalization of salaries of the judges of the Armed Forces with the judges of the politicians, etc. courts citing “failure of the State to equalize the salaries of judicial officers”.
The Salary Court, however, states in its decision that “according to the constitutional imperatives, it is necessary to regulate by law within a reasonable time from the entry into force of the revised constitutional provision of the special salary regime of the judicial officers of the Armed Forces, in order to provide similar to the their earnings function”.
The judges emphasize that “it is imperative to complete the actions quickly, without further delay, with the passing of the relevant law”, so that salary equalization occurs, judging, at the same time, that the passage of two years from the entry into force of the revised provision, does not impose the payment as the Constitution does not specify the time within which the legislator is obliged to issue a law implementing the new constitutional provision.
It is worth noting that the decision mentions that the Ministry of National Defense, in October 2022, sent a document to the court confirming that the procedure for passing the proposed new executive law of the constitutional provision has already begun.
Reportage? Maria Zacharopoulou
