2 hours agoVV: Work without certainty and dignity is slavery
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Today a 45-year-old lost his life in the workplace. He was working on an object from which he had fallen to earth. After that, there were numerous reactions. The Vetevendosje movement says this problem has now become extremely disturbing in our country. Even a worker today has lost his life. A 45-year-old in Arberia neighbourhood has [...]
The Vetevendosje movement says this problem has now become extremely disturbing in our country.
Even a worker today has lost his life. A 45-year-old in Arberia neighbourhood has fallen from the heights of the building in which he worked and has found death. For 2018, the media reported eight more cases of death in the workplace, not to mention more than 40 recorded cases of injuries and many more unreported. In our country the deaths of workers at the workplace have become commonplace, while maintaining responsibilities and penalties for respective culprits remain rare cases, accidental and out of the ordinary”, a VV response is said.
VV has also mentioned private sector trouble finding workers. The “people in Kosovo, unless they have lost their way to finding a job, they are ahead of options: if you want a job, you will work long hours, no contract, no safety and low wages. Only the survival problem can push toward this. This is not a choice. Until conditions are improved, this is a collective threat. Not only unemployment but also work is a problem that requires solutions. Citizens want not only jobs, but work with dignity”, said further.
The Vetevendosje movement through a communique says that the workplace in general and construction workshops in particular are more and more like a construction site. That environment becomes enslaved when:
- Security engineers who make sure to update workers on possible dangers and safety measures during the day are missing. ;
- There is a lack of frequent and strict control by labour inspectors, who make sure the company is doing its duties to workers and the state;
- They lack strict legal measures and their rigorous execution of employing companies, which would ensure companies carried out all obligations to workers and the state.
“The rhetoric of government employment in Kosovo -- not to mention the dignity and security of the workplace -- is like selling slavery for social employment policy. Kosovo needs a developing economy that opens jobs, but also a social state that sides with workers to ensure justice and equality. Only the social state can make sure that the worker enjoys well and does not fall into slave status”, the VV's response concludes.
