Board of directors of the Post: We're in financial crisis, the next month the workers can be out of salaries

The Kosovo Post Board of Directors has made it known that the financial situation in the Post has weighed down even more in recent months.

It is also stressed that the delay in executing wages over time has caused marked dissatisfaction among workers and trade unions who have warned strike and protests.

Through a text sent to the media, the Board of Directors is publicly addressing the Government of Kosovo, Post workers, unions and public opinion that the situation is getting heavy and that it is at risk of spending the next month's salary.

This is the complete communique:

Conform responsibilities as representatives of the Kosovo Government, the Board of Directors of the Kosovo Public Company Posta United States. has examined the financial situation in the company today.

Following paperwork and reports addressed to the Government, the board sees no choice but to publicly address the Government of Kosovo, Post, Trade Unions and Public Opinion that the financial situation at the Post is being burdened by month-on-month.

This situation has resulted from financial losses in Posta's offering the Universal Post Service, as well as failing to settle financial obligations for the services it offers for certain operators.

Kosovo's post is obliged by law to offer the Universal Postal Service regardless of the cost and continued loss for years. On the other hand, the Government of Kosovo is obliged by law to cover losses in this service. There is also an agreement between the Post and the Ministry of Economic Development. Moreover, the Court has also considered the case and has asked the MZHE to compensate for the financial loss Posta has suffered during its delivery.

So far we have had no understanding and willingness from the Government to enforce the law and court decisions.

Due to the failure to cover this service, the Board of Directors has been tasked with early 2015 cutting wages for all Kosovo Post employees, also in early 2013 to stop health insurance for all employees and to do the reduction of all operational spending to the extent where the actual operation in the company has sometimes been hampered.

The situation has weighed down even more in recent months, causing delays in the execution of wages for over a thousand Post employees.

The delay in executing wages over time has caused considerable dissatisfaction among workers and trade unions who have warned strike and protests.

The chief executive and management chief, despite the work they have done in launching new products and services and in establishing revenues in the company every year, this increased revenues again have been insufficient to create financial stability for the company without the Universal Postal Service being covered.

The company's management has sent dozens of paperwork to Government for covering the Universal Postal Service as the legal duty the Government has received, but so far it has not been repaid and has resulted in bringing the company into a financial difficulty for executing salaries.

Management has sent a concrete plan for achieving the Post's long-term financial sustainability to Government in November 2017, with concrete proposals and ideas for new services and products, including the proposal for the establishment of the Post Bank. These required services are available to most countries in the region and Europe. But so far there was no response from the Actionary (government).

By analyzing this situation, we inform the Government of Kosovo and public opinion that on April 1, 2018, we will come to a situation where the company cannot do the execution of employees' salaries and face various union activities which we understand as reasonable.