When Workers ' Salad Is Growing

Finance Minister Bedri Hamza at the beginning of his mandate has declared there will be salary increases for public servants. This increase in wages is expected to be made depending on the rate of economic growth and real budgetary opportunities.

However, since it is still not well known how much this salary increase will be, it is expected to take place in 2018.

Muharrem Sahini from the Public Communication Division at the MF, in a proposal for Indescsonline, has said that wage increases will be part of the 2018 budget.

The salary increase for public servants will be part of the 2018 budget and will be in line with economic growth, in line with real budgetary opportunities, as well as within legal infrastructure”, Sahin said, failing to provide further details.

However, connoisseurs of economic issues view this promise only as a tendency to preserve militants from political parties in time of campaigning.

Economic Affairs Recognitioner Lulzim Beqiri in a proposal for Indexline says the Government of the Republic of Kosovo should have maximum care in the promise, as, according to him, it is impossible to become a public sector wage hike with a 4 per cent growth of the economy.

“I think there are no political conditions and no economic growth for a public sector salary increase of 25% or 30%, as the Minister Hamza claims, for a raise in wages would need a double economic growth 8% or 10%, there is no point in such a salary increase in this crisis that the country is going through, hundreds of thousands of social cases with a record unemployment over 3.5%, a place for growth, the road would be to dismiss the administration in charge and come up with policies in support of the private sector because it is close to getting out of control, don't forget 13 citizens have lost their lives in the private sector only, so the 20% not said, so Beqiski.

Thus, he estimates that this promised increase in salary growth by bypassing the private sector is biased and immoral.

“This growth by bypassing the private sector is biased and ungenerous, since the private sector employs the largest number of workers, based on BSPK statistics, over 300 thousand citizens are employed in the private sector and pays much less, in the public sector are employed more than 82,000 people and rewarded more, so the private sector fills the state's box, in my opinion it is discrimination, too, according to data, the average net in Kosovo for the public sector is over 420 euros, until, according to the private sector data in the average sector, around 349 euro).