Ymer: The minimum wage urgently becomes 250 euros

The Kosovo Assembly is holding the work of the session, at which the minimum wage is being discussed, this discussion under a resolution submitted by the Social Democrat Party, where it has demanded that minimum wage increase urgently to 250 euros, for all employed.

Visar Ymer from the PSD, as the presentation of the resolution, said the minimum wage increase to 250 is the first urgent move to be taken.

The growth of the minimum wage to 250 euros is the first urgent measure, under the minimum wage law must change annually, its proposal for the level should go from the social economic council to the government, but governments have consistently ignored union requirements and sabotaged social dialogue, and I'm talking about all the governments that have served in Kosovo in different mandates”, he said.

He said this increase should involve all employees indiscriminately. He added that the same salary principle for the same work should be reinforced.

“The PSD proposes that the indiscriminate division that envisions the current law and 130 euros minimum wage for young people by 35 be immediately removed, so that we have a minimum wage for each employed regardless of what age or gender belongs to”, he said.

Ymer said growth has an effect on private sector workers. While the low minimum wage rate hit women the most.

The PSD has submitted a resolution April 4th, which Ymer said is to be discussed and agreed with other parliamentary groups.

He called for the Parliament to make the decision and to ask the social economic council to discuss it once again, and to hand over the application to the government, respectively, to ask the prime minister to make the decision as soon as he can to raise the minimum wage.