TY  - JOUR
TI  - UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN&nbsp;SLOVAKIA AS&nbsp;A&nbsp;SPECIAL CATEGORY OF&nbsp;EMPLOYEES IN&nbsp;PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: SOCIAL STABILITY OF&nbsp;EMPLOYMENT?
T2  - Public Administration Issues
IS  - Public Administration Issues
KW  - employment
KW  - public administration
KW  - university teachers
KW  - descriptive analyses of university teachers
KW  - social security
KW  - the Slovak Republic
AB  - The main role of&nbsp;public administration is&nbsp;to administrate public affairs. All of&nbsp;the functions in&nbsp; this field are realised by&nbsp; employees carrying out the dependent work. Public administration, as&nbsp; an employer, has to&nbsp; fulfil the demand of&nbsp; stability and attractiveness of&nbsp;public sector employment. For the purposes of&nbsp;the study our attention focuses on&nbsp;a&nbsp;large group of&nbsp;public employees, namely teachers in&nbsp;public universities in&nbsp;Slovakia. Legislative regulation of&nbsp;the employment of&nbsp;university teachers is&nbsp;alarming. The paper analyses Slovak legislation of&nbsp;time-terminated employment contracts with university teachers and its unlimited repetition. The authors, supported by&nbsp;settled case law of&nbsp;the Court of&nbsp;Justice of&nbsp;the EU, assess the legislation in&nbsp;substance and critically, but also point to&nbsp;its potential impact on&nbsp;the private life, social security and health of&nbsp;these employees, i.e. psychological aspects. Descriptive analysis aimed at&nbsp;assessing quantitative changes in&nbsp;individual groups of&nbsp;university teachers according to&nbsp;the highest level of&nbsp;qualification was used to&nbsp;express trends in&nbsp;the development of&nbsp;quantitative indicators characterizing selected aspects of&nbsp;employment of&nbsp;university teachers (assistant, assistant professor, associate professor, professor). Legislation on&nbsp;the employment of&nbsp;university teachers under the conditions of&nbsp;the Slovak Republic raises considerations of&nbsp; unequal treatment of&nbsp; two categories of&nbsp; university teachers (associate professors and professors) when compared to&nbsp;the category of&nbsp;assistants and assistant professors. For this reason, an&nbsp;analysis of&nbsp;the age structure of&nbsp;university teachers according to&nbsp;the highest qualifications was carried out. The analyses were carried out using data from the Center of&nbsp;Scientific and Technical Information of&nbsp;the Slovak Republic (CVTI SR) and the Register of&nbsp;University Employees maintained by&nbsp;the Ministry of&nbsp;Education, Science, Research and Sport of&nbsp;the Slovak Republic. The study was conducted for the reference term of&nbsp;2011-2019. Through our analysis, we&nbsp;have identified a&nbsp;downward trend in&nbsp; the number of&nbsp; university teachers qualified as&nbsp; assistant professors in&nbsp; the 40-49&nbsp;age category, and this change does not reflect the increase in&nbsp;the number of&nbsp;associate professors in&nbsp;the same age category. The group of&nbsp;university teachers in&nbsp;this age category then becomes vulnerable/disadvantaged in&nbsp;the labor market, which has serious social consequences for the employees themselves and provides a&nbsp;picture of&nbsp;the university environment in&nbsp;terms of&nbsp;legislation.
AU  - Vladimíra Žofčinová
AU  - Milena Barinková
AU  - Zuzana Hrabovská
UR  - https://vgmu.hse.ru/en/2020--6/436034810.html
PY  - 2020
SP  - 133-155
VL  -