a minute agoMillions of euros lose out on public sector work hours
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The labour law, adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo in 2010, is being violated by the country's own institutions, claims representatives of the business community and the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Kosovo. Disrespecting this law is, according to them, happening specifically to the mother who determines the working schedule, which means the period [...]
Disobedience of this law is, according to them, taking place specifically in the article specifying the working schedule, which means the time period during which the employee performs a job or service in behalf of his employer.
Doruntina Gashi, official for information at the Kosovo Afarism Oda, tells Radio Free Europe that with this law, the full working hours last 40 hours a week, while public sector employees work 7 hours a week or 35 hours a week, because, according to her, the pause hour, it should not be calculated as hours of work. Even leaders of the Union of Independent Unions say the Labour Law is not implemented in public institutions.
According to the Afarism Oda in Kosovo, from disrespecting full working hours of 8 hours a day, Kosovo's budget from this sector loses about 90m euros annually.
The average salary in the public sector, according to this, is about 600 euros, meaning around 3.75 euros per hour of work. There are 237 days a year in Kosovo, 1896 hours during the year, and according to an Ode account, the losses Kosovo undergoes from the pause are 237 hours of losses, with about 100 thousand employees being created around 88m euros.
