Alen Hedo, master of legal sciences, who was written about by numerous media in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), remains the only person with 100% disability and a master’s degree on the records of the Employment Office in the Bosnian-Podrinje Canton (BPC) Gorazde.
Namely, Alen Hedo, who a few months ago applied to the public invitation of the Gorazde City Administration for the position of expert associate for legal affairs in the field of communal activities, was on the list of successful candidates as the third in terms of the number of points won and was chosen by the mayor of Gorazde, Ernest Imamovic, for this position. After an appeal from one of the candidates, Hedo said that he was rejected and that he would not get the job.
“That’s what the appeals committee decided, which, based on the appeal of one of the candidates, without taking into account Article 15 of the Federal Act on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (PWD), which provides for priority in the employment of PWDs, annulled the decision by which I was elected to this position. In the part of the competition where I proved my knowledge and ability with pen and paper, the result was 100% and without mistakes, but in the part where one of the committee members looked at me and my wheelchair and did not listen to my answers, I was scored with a lower number of points, which demotes me on the list of successful candidates,” wrote Alen.
It should be recalled that Alen Hedo obtained the title of Master of Legal Sciences at the University of Sarajevo (UNSA) six years ago, and for years he has been looking for a job, which is why he announced going out to protests two years ago, but this was followed by a public promise by the mayor of Gorazde, Ernest Imamovic, that he would be employed in the City Administration of Gorazde.
He also points out that he continues his fight.
“Life goes on. I continue to fight on the path of constant education and the search for a job where I will surely succeed there or somewhere else in the end. This is not my personal defeat, it is not the defeat of my family, because God gives sustenance, and I have just as much as I need. My work engagement does not come down to materialism, because I would probably keep the smallest part of my salary for myself, and invest the larger part in young people with disabilities who are studying. My work engagement comes down to sentimental value, so that my mother, who is currently fighting a tumor and other diseases, understands that her effort of carrying me to school was not in vain, so that my father, who carries me with a wounded arm to the third or fifth floor, understands that he was not wrong to keep us in this City/Canton, and that my place is with you, not behind you or (socially) below you,” Hedo concluded, Klix.ba reports.
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