Forty thousand people can remain unemployed, companies fully co-operate

So said the Online Economy chairman of the Private Sector Workers Union, Yusuf Azemi.

Azemia, among other things, has said that much of the workplace is losing as a result of neglecting the demands of private sector owners and employees.

“Mbi 50% of Kosovo companies are not working at full capacity because this is not allowing in a far shape the economic development of these businesses and we have repeated and we are afraid that by the end of this month and early next month more than 400,000 jobs will be lost. Much of the workplace is also being lost due to the neglect of the demands of the owners of private sector companies and employees”.

However, the first workers say private sector workers, even before the pandemic, have faced numerous problems, reports EO.

But, he stressed, a large portion of companies are now paying workers only 50%, with the reason that they are working with only 50% of capacity.

“We as unions have always expressed concern that the state of private sector workers and before the pandemic has been too heavy to start with that the salaries of these workers have been minimum 130-170 euros, but now the pandemic in a shape has completely taken us off track, and these workers may be thinking that maybe better to stay home than with these salaries to go and work”.

“ ... when it is actually known that even company owners are now particularly threatened by union and workers that they will not have the possibility of paying a hundred percent, and that they so far are paying workers 50 percent, given what they say only 50% of capacity”.

He has praised the work of the government passed and the current government with a zero grade, which according to him has not yet carried out the obligations of Pacos Emergency Government, EO reports.

Azem has said a mutual pressure has been created by the pandemic and the country's government.

“If we can evaluate it by one note, I can estimate by the previous government's score of 0 even the current government because obligations from the emergency package the Kosovo government has not made for April and May that in fact the payments of 170 euros and 130 euros were due at the end of May, but we are now at the end of July and still are not seeing a positive” signal.

“ ... The government of Kosovo can make decisions in a shape from the table, but they don't know what the cost of those decisions is when they don't pay the payments in the coonform of the agreement, and here it makes decisions to sanction, and we have a mutual pressure from pandemic and Government”.