Major wage differences, draft law expected to trigger confrontation

The wage bill, which is in procedure in the Assembly, has sparked widespread dissatisfaction among different levels within the public sector, the cause of the growing gap between these levels. Strikes in education, health and others warned, according to opposition party deputies, relate precisely to this bill, as they have said creates division [...]
Strikes in education, health and others warned, according to opposition parties' deputies, relate precisely to this bill, as they have said creates division rather than equality as originally thought, writes today “Koha Ditore”.
Regarding this bill, the Commission for Public Administration, Local Governance and Media has started three days since a worker has begun to examine the Bill in question and to analyse requirements that have emerged from different sectors, in particular, health and education sectors.
MP Arban Abrashi, a member of this Commission from the ranks of the Democratic League of Kosovo, has told the paper that the Law as such is very lacking and that it is being worked on intensively. But, according to him, it has not yet been achieved in the appendix of cofficients for different categories, yet, as he has said, there is a possibility that they will be changed and there will be a closeness of the cofficients, especially for categories that have entered the strike.












