State allocates 5m euros to compensate former political prisoners

More than fivem euros is the budget earmarked for next year to compensate former political prisoners.

He has been aware of this in Puls, Minister of Labour and Social Management, Skender Recica.

It has shown that the entire 2019 budget for the Ministry of Labour and Social Management is 465m euros. Only for veteran pensions will 60 million, 2 million more than the year 2018.

“For war invalid pensions will be divided 39m euros”, Recica has said.

In Puls of KTV, Recica has also spoken of victims of sexual violence during the recent war in Kosovo.

“have applied 800 people, about 145 persons have been recognised as victims of sexual violence during the last war of”, Recica has said.

The Labour Minister has also talked about the large number of deaths in the workplace, especially in the construction sector.

We closed over 100 workshops in the construction sector during November alone. We've increased the inspection number and they haven't been working. We tried campaigning to raise awareness”, he said. This year alone, 20 workers have died, most of them in the construction sector”, later added.

But the deputy from Vetevendosje in Kosovo's Parliament, Fatmire Muharja Kolcak, has voiced confidence that the state is doing nothing to protect workers in the private sector.

“Most are without contracts, we have a large number of workers who died at the workplace, and we don't see any companies being convicted”, she said.