Young people are leaving the country, but in Kosovo there are officials who have eight jobs

Although Kosovo is valued country with Higher unemployment rate In Europe, high officials of state institutions, who head for high wages, have no problem providing for and maintaining 2 more jobs, or even cases When an official has eight jobs.

According to the latest report published by the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency, 1873 senior public officials, who exercise more than one post, have reportedly been identified.

According to the agency, a senior official holds eight functions, 2 persons have seven different positions, as well as 2 other officials hold six jobs, 13 officials hold 5 positions at the same time, another 37 enjoy four different jobs, with three positions being 366 officials, while with 1451 senior state officials in Kosovo.

This practice is considered not only illegal but also harmful to the relevant institution, since officials with more than one position are estimated to be ineffective.

Arton Demhay from the COHU organisation, for Radio Free Europe, says the number of public officials with multiple functions could be even higher. This practice, he underlines, is also a conflict of interest that presents many problems.

It is not at the same time logical for an official to hold certain positions because he cannot be effective in either of his positions. Even so, under other laws that regulate these issues, indicate that the moment the person receives the work contract, he is obliged to work for eight hours at his workplace. So it is impossible to hold certain positions simultaneously. This is harmful practice because it's damaged the relevant institution”, Demhasaj said.

Even Medjidie Demolli Nimani from Movement “FOL” in a conversation for Radio Free Europe says that with holding multiple positions, top officials cannot be successful. According to her, this phenomenon hinders the employment of other unemployed persons and that in Kosovo it is extremely high.

Unfortunately, here powerful people, the largest figures in political parties can have more than two positions. It would be good to have an analysis that these officials hold these positions because there are no other quarts. And that there is no such situation when we consider the large number of graduates of high education institutions in Kosovo and abroad who wait years for a job in public institutions”, Demolli said.

The Law on Prevention of Conflict of Interest states that during the time of public office exercise, the official must act in defense of public interest and has no right to put his private interest ahead of public interest.

The conflict of interest arises from a situation in which the official has private interest, which affects, can influence, or seems to influence, the conduct and objective of his official duty.

Among other things, the high official is said to be working on the floor of science, sports, education, culture and humanitarian activity unless presented differently with other laws.

Arton Demhayan, says civil society has asked the executive to change the law so that no other work can be allowed for top state officials.

“But we have not faced the political will of political parties to support such an issue. So this practice has remained, continuing that I consider is very harmful to public administration in general”, he said.

Salaries of top state officials are also considered high by civil society. The Kosovo government, led by Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, has last year made a decision to raise government cabinet salaries. The Kosovo prime minister's salary is 2950 euros a month, deputy prime ministers 2,500 euros, ministers in the Kosovo government pay monthly pay have 2,000 thousand euros, while deputy ministers who are about 80 monthly salaries receive 1,150 euros per month.

An increase in wages for most public sector employees has also occurred with the adoption of the Law on Salaries, which is expected to take effect at the end of this year.

On the other side The rate of unemployment in the land. According to data from the Kosovo Statistics Agency is 29.6 per cent. The most pronounced unemployment rate is in the 15-24-year-old group at 55.4 percent

From this figure, over 19 percent of unemployed people have completed their financial education.