Bitter news for civil servants on Monday

Next Tuesday will be a break for all those working in public institutions in Kosovo.

That's because on that day it's May Day, Workers' Day.

The first day of the fifth month is part of the State Holiday calendar.

And for this day, more is celebrated and fired in Kosovo than protested, although the holiday finds Kosovo with a high degree of unemployment and serious working conditions, especially in the private sector.

But bad news for all those who rest on May 1.

The festival will not link them on Monday, which will be a day of work, as will each other.

This has been confirmed by the Kosovo government's spokeswoman, Donjet Gashi, who by phone said she will be employed Monday.

Periscop has asked him about the government, since during contact with one of the municipal institutions, we are told that on Monday they don't work because they have a May 1 holiday.

E Gashi shows how this could happen.

According to her, civil servants can take a Monday break from the annual holiday to be tied to the weekend.

This is more individual issues. Someone could take a Monday break, from the annual holiday days, and connect me to May 1st”, Gashi told Periscope.

Thus, some of them will rest from Friday through Wednesday.

Kosovo has often been criticised for the high number of holiday days, the cause of holidays involved in the state calendar.

According to the list published by the Ministry of Public Administration, there are 11 official parties during 2018.

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The Story of May 1, Labor Day

The origin of this holiday is the labor class's struggle to provide an eight - hour working time and dates back to the XIX century.

Kosovo is not the only place where May 1 is an official holiday. International Work Day is celebrated in many parts of the world, and in most cases, this day is exploited for protests in which unions seek better conditions for their membership.

It is not celebrated in the land from which this festival originated. At least not on this date.

The origin of this holiday is the labor class's struggle to provide an eight - hour working time.

In the United States, during their 1884 convention, American unions give their owners two years of deadlines to cut it to eight hours on the day of their work.

On May 1, 1886, the general strike is organised, supported by anarchists. She is widely respected. Trade unions chose this day because many companies started the fiscal year on this date and since the contracts ended as well on May 1st.

At the meeting of the second Socialist International International, 1889, in Paris, it was decided that for every May 1, manifestations on which to cut to 8 hours of working hours were required, since working time in developed countries was 10 hours or more.

The May 1st was set up in memory of events in Haymarket, Chicago, three years earlier, when police fired on demonstrators, causing many victims.

And, on May 1, 1890, the event is first marked in most countries, with different participation.

In 1891, in Brussels the Socialist International character of May 1st.

In 1920, Bolshevic Russia decides that 1 May will be a holiday and will become the legal holiday of workers.

Although May Day is associated with events in an American city, in the United States, May 1 is not the holiday of workers. In the United States and Canada, the Labor Festival is the first Monday of September.

In Europe, May 1 is marked in various forms. In France, for example, there are large manifestations of labor unions.

In Germany it is a day of rest, even in several Swiss cantons. In cantons where trade unions are not at rest, they organize afternoon or even evening passes.

In Kosovo, meanwhile, although there are many reasons to protest, labor unions have made it almost common for May 1st to be silent and enjoy joining citizens in various organisations, especially walking in the capital's Germia park or even traveling the shores of neighboring countries. /Periscopi