Interest in minimum wage after two weeks

The deputy leader of this party, Wisar Ymeri, at a media conference has said that the minimum wage increase lowers income inequality and increases the overall welfare of citizens.

The minimal “Page in the Republic of Kosovo, set aside in 2011, is 170 euros for workers, who are over 35 years old, while 130 euros for those under the age of 35. And as such the minimum wage in the Republic of Kosovo is lower compared to any country in the region. Especially, when it translates into the purchasing power that creates it, not as very minimal, but as real purchasing power in the specified” market, Ymer said.

Remembering that the current minimum wage does not cover even the basic needs of citizens, the deputy head of The PSD commemorated that this salary has not been changed since 2011, despite the fact that by the end of 2018, the Social Economic Council had proposed to the Government the increase to 250 euros.

The “that has enacted the law for the social economic council, the minimum wage has been imposed only once and only in 2011. Since then that salary has continued to be the same, for which the real economy and its social impact have drastically changed. We will take a simple example. Salaries in the public sector during this time have risen at least twice, excluding this third increase that has been done with the Law of Pays, which was adopted in the Kosovo Assembly last week, which entered into force this year after nine months of”, Ymer said.

He said the minimum wage is the main component in the social protection system, in order to reduce poverty and boost social justice.

We have submitted the request Monday, so it has been proposed and it is now expected that if not next week, the interval will be held after two weeks, judged by these deadlines specified in the Parliament's regulation. So, as you know, after handing in the application, within two days the head of the Assembly must submit that request to the institution, which has been called into interference, this case is the prime minister of the Republic of Kosovo. And he's got seven days' work to get back to him on the day he was going to pay him to come to the interval. I think we're going to get into this escort so we can do it no later than after two weeks of”, the Ymer is done.