Azem: Suspected workers with COVID-19, owners were not allowed to go test

Private Sector Workers Union Chairman Yusuf Azemi through a media conference while counting on the problems workers are facing and saying they are not being helped by the state, has also highlighted cases where workers who had doubts that they were infected by COVID-19 are not allowed to go and test.

He also says that the state did nothing for the workers, and that from packages approved by the government but also in anticipation of economic recovery is helping only businesses and not workers.

Azem says there are over 70 per cent of the technical and security workers who are affected by COVID-19.

The reason we're holding this conference is because the state of the working in the private sector burdens the COVID, now the end of seasonal work in the builders, and now there's also a huge stress in these workers who worked so far, and now the seasonal situation is the one that is calm in an unpleasant position. COVID-19 has touched a beautiful portion of Kosovo private sector workers, who if we speak directly from public health institutions, over 70 per cent of technical and security workers are affected by COVID-19”, Azemi said.

Azem has told of cases where private sector workers who had doubts that they are infected with COVID-19 are not allowed to go to test, but also told of some cases that state objects have fainted and that company owners do not even carry them to an emergency.

We have frequent cases after companies even though private sector workers have expressed doubts that they are infected and have demanded that at least be allowed and go to do analysis regarding this situation, but the owners of companies have not allowed them, but we also have cases in state institutions that private sector workers maintain the objects of the relevant ministries there are times when workers have fallen out of the pandemic and the owners of companies not only haven't been around them, but they haven't been carried until the 911 <11x> he relates.

He has also stressed that the Government of Kosovo did nothing for private sector workers.

“says that the emergency package was the package which was dedicated primarily to workers. We full responsibility say that more than 80 per cent of the package has gone back to the company owner's wallet because retroactively all the salaries that the Finance Ministry has executed wages for the private sector in the end they have been automatically withdrawn or implemented by the owner of the company and have not been benefited at”, Azemi said.

Azem once again had criticism of Kosovo Assembly deputies who are failing to pass the Law on Economic Recovery.

He says they're playing with the baby food in the cradle.

“They're playing with luck and playing with baby food in the cradle. It's the biggest idioticism, the biggest criminalization to be being done to this country for their party and political interests left the state in this state that I had never wanted the enemy states. They're doing it for political shopping, and for now the best business is political business because they're making maths between themselves. Perhaps this package of economic recovery will pass, but we will not benefit anything”, he said.

Despite this, Azem requires that these workers be placed on the list of workers paid an additional 150 euros.