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Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Former head of the Kosovo Economic Ode (OEK), Safet Gerjaliu, has said that in Kosovo, as a cause of pandemic, about 60 thousand people have lost their jobs. While the head of the Private Sector Union, Yusuf Azemi, says the new measures undertaken by the government will affect losses of up to 70 [...]
Former head of the Kosovo Economic Ode (OEK), Safet Gerjaliu, has said that in Kosovo, as a cause of pandemic, about 60 thousand people have lost their jobs. While the head of the Private Sector Union, Yusuf Azemi, says the new measures undertaken by the government will affect losses of up to 70m euros.
He even says that a deep analysis of closure is needed because it should be known how to support the private sector.
The fact that we have about 60 thousand unemployed workers, and the very fact that there will be a decline in circulation, whether in gastronomy or in hotels, I believe it is the key indicators that give space for concern”, Gerjaliu told EO.
In this direction I believe that we need an analysis, and when we have closure we need to know how to support the private sector that only closure is not a solution. In Kosovo we don't have a problem with just the infected, the problem is who monitors the infected, how those who carry the infection to others are conveyed. So it takes a basic actual date to monitor”.
While the head of the Private Sector Union, Yusuf Azemi, says the new measures undertaken by the government will affect losses of up to 70m euros.
If we take last year's statistics we have losses of over 1 billion euros. If we talk about the closure that has taken place around 70 million, we will have losses for the two-week closure that the Kosovo government has made. And for the workers, it was first to benefit, but the profit did not go to the employee account. All of this is being done by damage in all fields of private sector workers, and the final bill we're paying in”, He said Azem.
“The Kosovo government has shared the emergency package, the package for economic recovery, but, however, very little has been helpful to private sector workers, because the means have not gone to their fund. Even now we think that before the government's closure is done, it has to stimulate workers and companies first and then make the decision. These losses will cost us and our employees”.
Under the Government's decision from April 7th to April 18th, gastronomial services are obliged to suspend their activity. These businesses will be allowed to work only with “take to yourself”, “task force”, or take orders without leaving cars. Also prohibited would be the activity of closed malls, in addition to essential services within them, such as food shops and pharmacies.
