We've done nothing for private sector workers”

While saying that a large percentage of the workers in this sector have been affected by the pandemic, Azemi points out that the best way to stimulate this sector would be that workers who belong to the trust below 90 euros, the Government of Kosovo, to give 150 euros directly to them.

Azem in an interview for Kosova Prees, has said that workers in this although infected sector are often forced to go to work, but that there are times even when their salaries have been halted because of two weeks of quarantine.

While saying that apart from the trust, it is still not known how much money private sector workers will receive from the package for economic recovery.

If we take it outside health institutions, their number is about 15- to 20 percent, but if we take it to health institutions that work in hospitals, family medical centers in the private sector, they go between 30 and 40 percent. But the thing is, we've had a lot of workers who've been forced that during the pandemic, when even with documents were offered to the company owners, some workers have been let go, and some have not been left, but those who gave them a rest have their wages completely been paid for the days they haven't been present at work, that's their whole salary is zero. So if you're not in the workplace because you've been infected with Ovidius, then you don't have a pay-off, Azemi said.

Azem has added that the amount of the 200m euros it has pre-destined to share the Government for private sectors, but, as he says, workers in this sector will not benefit from this package.

The whole thing that's certain is that there will be a withdrawal of the means from their trust... while there's about 200 million that the Government of Kosovo has been thinking about since January one or I'd rather say in the first three months. Neither do they themselves know because they say a commission will be assembled to make the proportional division of how they will do it. And if we say it individually, private sector workers will almost not benefit from this”, Azemi said.

According to him, the best way to stimulate this sector would be for workers belonging to from the trust below 90 euros, the Government of Kosovo to approach 150 euros for them directly.

The “won't have the effect people have been expecting, and exactly private sector workers will be getting worse because they don't have the reception they have and it will be a symbolic sum. The very fact that over 100 thousand workers would have a 90-euro withdrawal, suggests that we actually didn't do anything to... ... the best way to simulate private sector workers, it would have been, especially in this category that there are 104 thousand workers... it would have been very good to have been given 150 euros directly because with this amount of money we would have done nothing, Azemi said.

Azem has said that passing the law on economic recovery will not have the effect private sector workers have expected and that they will be further disappointed, as there is nothing to draw from the trust.