After the privat operator's contract with the municipality expired, the Peja municipality has decided that these 25 workers, out of them, are the maintenance of the city's greenery and the 10 others on the road clearing, the tê transfer under the umbrella of the regional waste company “Environment”, where these workers have worked the same job until three years ago when the tender for these services had won the private operator, which with a deal with the municipality, had taken these workers under contract and continued to do the same job that they did in the time they were operating <2x2Her>

Based on the company's business plan “Environment” approved in the Municipal Assembly, ahead of the stock commission, it is decided that after the transfer, the Pec Community will secure the budget for their salaries. This official transfer of letters has not yet taken place and these workers still have no job contracts, but the level of pay being offered to these workers has caused revolts among these workers, who three days are in protest and are not working.

The chief worker of these 25 workers, Shefqet Kastrati, shows that the municipality has offered you the same salary of 255 euros a month and 50 euros per month for bars, which they have recently received from the private operator.

This is discrimination, because workers at Environment have a salary of over 400 euros with all their clothes. We're asking that we have the same salaries as they do the physical workers at Environment. This is our request. We're waiting for us to be back in the Environment with salaries that workers have there”, says Kastrat even on behalf of the workers who stood around him in the town's small park near municipality objects, where they were holding the protest Thursday, Koha Ditore reports.

And in the cabinet of the mayor of Komuna, they claim that these workers, who currently have no business contracts with anyone, are not obliged at the moment to do anything they have done.

They have good will and we have commended them for not being reluctant to go out and do the work they did, but now it remains with us to solve this problem. We've told you that the will of the municipality is to make the transition to those workers in the environment. But the possibility of wages at that altitude they claim is difficult. Now we're trying to find solutions, but they have other demands against the salaries they have in the private operator, and we as a municipality have limited budgetary opportunities. But it has remained that the mayor of Komuna, along with the director of finance, will see the financial possibility of providing means for a substantial increase for these workers”, says the head of this cabinet, Durim Sheremet.

According to him, the legal route has been proven for the transition of these workers to the Environment, but as he adds, it should be viewed as financial opportunity or, as he says, to find the compromise of the demands of these workers, as Sheremet, the unit of these workers, for their work, is the most important unit.

This assessment of these workers still does not reflect on the willingness of the president's office to offer the salaries they ask for, despite the financial director, Jeton Abazaj, has given the president's office green light for the financial opportunity of a higher salary than what they have offered him.

I can offer you up to 400 euros a month's gross salary, including the grate. More than that. I told you 120 thousand euros could be earmarked for their salaries for the whole year, as much as we paid the economic operator for that service. Yesterday I gave the information to the mayor's office that this amount could be offered as a salary. Now it's in the domain of the mayor's office to make a solution to”, showed Abazaj on the level of wages that the municipality has to offer these workers, for whom the director of “Environment”, Nexhat Abdullah, after it was decided that these workers would be transferred to this company, in the budget plan he planned wages the same as the field workers in that company.

Avbdullah indicates that when these workers were passed to the private operator, they had their work contract cut off at “Environmental”, and therefore this company has no obligation to them.

I've been trying to do something for those workers, and the moment the municipality said they'd be moving to environment, and their salaries paid to municipalities, we made the project and a budget plan for those workers. I've planned their courses at the level that they have physical environmental workers, which have 370 euros and 50 euros extra for the tar. That if they broke into a group of our workers, they didn't have discrimination, but they should have the same salaries. But the municipality has not agreed, that it sets their salary level”, said company director “Environment”, which until three years ago, when the municipality had decided to privatise these services, it carried out money and postwar.

As with these 25 workers now, passed on to “Environment”, the Pec municipality had done the same with about 260 school cleaning service workers, municipality objects, ambulances, and the physical security of municipal facilities.

These municipal services were privatized in 2010. The municipal cleanup service had again returned to its management at the end of 2015, when it cut off the operator's contract, claiming that it did not contain the contract.

The same cleaning workers have been municipal workers even before the cleanup sector was privatised and had been spent as workers of cleaning companies that have performed this service for the municipality during those years. And for the physical service of municipal objects after having expired contracts to the operator in mid - 2016, the municipality had decided to return this service to its management.

All of these workers, who continue to do the same work even now, have put the municipality on the salary list to the waste company “Environment”, while the means for their salaries provide for the municipality itself, which with 100 percent shares is the owner of the “Environment”. /Koha.net/