Coalition for Social Justice seeks institutional responsibility for worker death

Coalition for Social Justice reacts to worker's death, call for institutional responsibility

The Social Justice Coalition has reacted to the deaths of workers at their workplace.

This coalition, which has been operating since 2015, has made a request to Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, Chief Parliamentary Kadri Veselini, as well as deputies of the Kosovo Assembly, specifying the last case of loss of life in his job place of Milazim Bajraktar.

According to them, nothing has been worked to prevent the deaths of workers at the workplace, Klan Kosova reports.

This is the response:

Reaction on Milazim Bayraktar's death

Honored Prime Minister, Prime Minister and MP of the Republic of Kosovo,

We, the undersigned, are addressing this letter to public protest in the case of the 45-year-old, Milazim Bajraktari, a construction worker who is the second victim for the last ten days, who lost his life in the workplace.

It is alarming to silence and institutional inaction over these tragic cases, as well as the impunity of the construction sector businesses, which make it appear like the Mafia sector.

Over the past five years alone, 98 citizens, family holders, have lost their lives in their jobs in the construction sector. Of these deaths, many children were orphaned, as families must continue their lives under extremely serious economic conditions, which are the result of the country's low standard of living, high unemployment, and extreme poverty.

The Coalition for Social Justice calls on the Government and Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo to address with urgency the phenomenon of frequent deaths in the workplace, calling supervisory organs, implementation and prosecution to be responsible for measures against all subjects who violate the Labour Law and the Law for Security and Health at work, and not to be allowed to treat workers as if they were slaves.

Workers in the Republic of Kosovo should be guaranteed that their workplace will not return to death. /Periscopi/.