Date of the judgment: 07.06.2019.
Official publication: 10.06.2019.
On Compliance of Section 27 (5) and Section 30 (4) of the Law “On Institutions of Higher Education” with the first sentence of Article 106 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia
Case short name: Employment contracts for the academic personnel IThe Constitutional Court decided to:
declare Section 27(5) of the Law on Higher Education Institutions, with regard to associate professors and professors, Section 28(2) and Section 30(4), in so far as they do not provide protection against the abuse arising from the use of successive fixed-term employment contracts, as non-compliant with the first sentence of Article 106 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia.
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