DISCIPLINARY RESPONSIBILITY OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN THE SERBIAN LAW

U radu se daje prikaz uređenja disciplinske odgovornosti državnih službenika u Republici Srbiji, a uz pojedine institute navode se stajališta pravne teorije i sudske prakse. Uvodno se daje zakonsko odre- đenje pojma državnog službenika i definiraju radna dužnost i disciplinska odgovornost. U središnjem dijelu rada autor opisuje povrede radne dužnosti, disciplinske kazne, pravila disciplinskog postupka i postupak udaljenja s rada državnog službenika. Autor zaključuje da je potrebno katalog kazni dopuniti uvjetnim prestankom radnog odnosa, propisati mogućnost kažnjavanja umirovljenih državnih službenika, a udaljenje s rada uvjetovati i opravdanim očekivanjem da bi državnom službeniku mogla biti izrečena kazna prestanak radnog odnosa.This paper gives a review of regulating disciplinary responsibility of civil servants in the Republic of Serbia, and with certain concepts it presents the standpoints of legal theory and jurisprudence. In the introduction the author gives legal defi nition of the term civil servant and defi nes working duty and disciplinary responsibility. In the central part of the paper the author describes violations of working duty, disciplinary penalties, rules of disciplinary proceedings and process of suspending civil servant from duty. The author concludes that it is necessary to supplement the catalog of penalties with probation suspension from civil service, proscribe the possibility of punishing the retired civil servants, and condition suspension from duty by reasonable expectations that a civil servant could be sentenced to termination of civil service