Press release

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo would like to inform the public opinion that in response to an inquiry about the execution of a judgment involving certain former workers of the IMK Steel Factory in Ferizaj, the Constitutional Court did not decide what, if any, monetary compensation should be awarded to certain workers whose constitutional rights had been violated in the privatization process of their employer, a socially owned enterprise.

On 6 December 2012, the Decision on Non-execution of this judgment was published because the Government and the Privatization Agency of Kosovo had not yet executed the Judgment of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo, Case No. KI 08/09, of 17 December 2010.

The Constitutional Court reiterates that the issue of monetary compensation was not adjudicated by the judgment of the Constitutional Court, which held that the final and binding judgment of the Municipal Court of Ferizaj must be executed by the competent authorities, in particular, the Government and the Privatization Agency of Kosovo, as the legal successor of KTA. Similarly the issue of monetary compensation was not adjudicated by the judgment of the Municipal Court of Ferizaj (C. no. 340/2001 of 11 January 2002), which held that that all workers who had reported to work should be reinstated in their positions at work or to working places adequate to their qualifications and working skills and should acquire all their rights from the labour relations.