Jasharaj after the Constitutional decision: Requesting salary increases, tensions drop

The Constitutional Court's decision to declare the Law of Salats is not well received by workers in the Kosovo education sector, Online Economy reports.

SBASK Chairman Beftman Jashari, in an interview for Online Economy, says he has not expected such a decision by the Constitutional Court, adding that they are being discriminated against on the part of state institutions.

Let me tell you right all the unions that represent employees in the public sector have not received well. After two suspensions that had created an unpleasant atmosphere, then in a situation that we worked on as a cause of pandemic”.

Yasar for EO said the Constitution has had to pass this law, giving recommendations on points that conflict with the institution so that the Assembly can improve them.

We've expected everything else yesterday, even based on the meetings we've had with the ombudsman that initiated this procedure. We have been waiting for the Constitutional Court to say the same law and signal for implementation of the Law of the Salaries, waiting for the Constitutionary to give recommendations that fall contrary to the law, Kosovo MPs gradually improve”.

“Lajm that the Law of Salaries has been put in whole has created a bad atmosphere and is bad news, so much more than the opinion knows that SBASK had to cut down on teaching and hold strikes to improve the coeffient”, he says.

Speaking of this Constitutional Court decision, Jashari says the decision has disappointed all public sector workers. It even says space to implement even more.

The “have been extremely disappointed and felt badly, the more when this Law was approved in the Parliament last year, that nine months' space has always been met with hopes and claims by institutions that if December December finds employees in the public sector with new law”.

“We have cases in education that have entered loans, thinking that so much the salary will increase they will handle the loan more easily”, Jashar said.

For further steps, Jashar says they will insist that the Government reflects in this direction, and that at least with salary increases drop the tensions created after that decision.

“The SBASK is aware that we cannot act on the Constitution, we are expecting that something concrete but that I don't know what will happen”.

We will look and insist that despite the Constitution and we are very unhappy, perhaps our state should find a temporary solution to lower tensions and take any step, either with an eventual wage increase of”, he said.

The Constitutional Court has declared the Law for Salaries in the public sector invalid, accepting the ombudsman's request following several trade unions' complaints.

After two suspensions, the Court has decided that this law as a whole is not compatible with some provisions of the Kosovo Constitution.

The court has said it has come to the conclusion that the controversial law had not harmonised salaries at the level of all sectors.

It has stressed that there have been arbitrary and unreasonable exceptions to some institutions, including: The Kosovo Security Force, the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, the Kosovo Kosovo Privatisation Agency, the Central Bank of Kosovo, and the Parliament itself.