Salaries Law to Be Sent to Constitutional Court

However, even after adopting the Kosovo Assembly, the Law on Salaries continues to bring disappointment, KTV reports.

Representatives of labour unions are even planning to send this law to the Constitutional Court.

Nexhat Llumnica, chairman of the KEK Workers' Union, says the involvement of workers of this institution in the Law for Salaries constitutes constitutional violations.

And the KEK Union initiative was joined by the COST and Telecom trade union.

Thus, they together have submitted requests for help to the ombudsman.

The latter shows that there are a total of five organisations that have sought assistance in order to submit the Law for Pays to the Constitutional Court.

Hilmi Jashar says that the most frequent complaints have to do with discrimination among categories that this law has made.

On the other hand, Albanian Pantina from the Social Democrat Party does not rule out the possibility of mistakes it may have in the Law on Salaries.

However, according to her, it is important that the law first enter into force and then change its articles or even intervene on its own Constitution.

Meanwhile, for the possibility of facing the Constitutional Court, as the salary bill maper, Public Administration Minister Mahir Jagcilar has said that already the ministry he heads has no access to.

Everyone has the right to seek clarification from the Constitutional Court for Laws. At this point, the Ministry of Public Administration has no right to intervene in the law, only by regulation tries to make it possible to respect the Law for wages. This is because the law has been passed in the Assembly and changes can be made with government procedures”, Yagcilar said.

The wage law, along with two supporting laws, was adopted by the Kosovo Assembly in February 2019, after many protests and strikes by different categories of the public sector.