Kosovo lacks labour force in some sectors

One of the main barriers to the private sector in Kosovo is the lack of professional skills. From the Kosovar Alliance of Business, they say the most required professions are in construction, agriculture, and other professions, while qualified young people have the European market and are leaving the country.

Employer Bedri Kosumi, in recent years, has invested a lot in technological mechanisms for reasons, as he says, has been facing a lack of agricultural workers for years.

For seasonal workers, it's extremely difficult. This enables us to be more independent of human hands, because there are about five years when it comes to extracting potatoes and irrigation, we face a shortage of workers”, Kosumi told Radio Kosovo.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Union of Independent Workers' Unions, Avni Aydin, tells our Radio that Kosovo has a lot of experts on different fields, but it is evident that they are leaving the country.

We have a lot of experts, but the expert is not appreciated and paid. That's why he doesn't go to work, and there's a vacuum, and that's where a new worker is taken and he doesn't know that trade, and then there's problems now”, Aydin said.

Aydin further says that the workforce should be employed in Kosovo to provide with demands on the labour market.