Chairman of the Union: Private workers are paying the pandemic bill

Azem in an interview for Online Economy has stressed that the situation is already getting worse and that workers are barely stopping from protesting.

There are also endangered workers working in medical centres, and there are no technical workers working and there is no crossing the period of Covid so the Government of Kosovo has done nothing for them, except a ridiculous extension. So we've come up with a request that every month as long as we're in this situation for these workers, we need to stimulate 150 euros because they're the first to face patients. We know what we are in and know how we are trying to stop the protest of these workers for whom the political class is not treating” properly, Azemi said.

Among other things Azem said that a chaotic situation has been created from the new version Delta, and some private sector workers have already been reported not to go to work, which they will not be paid for.

There's been a chaotic situation of fear that we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. We were also burdened by the first half of the pandemic. Now the workers are starting to report to us through calls that company owners have announced that until the next announcement they will not come to work and these workers will not be paid and their well-being will deteriorate. We've said that this mess that we're facing, we're not balancing because private sector workers are having the main burden and while public sector workers, some of them are staying at home where their salaries are double and triple larger. So the final bill of all this pandemic is going to the back of the private sector”, he stressed.

He says the first moment the measures are released will require the rights they belong to.

I don't want to talk at this time because now is the time to come together about our obligations, and the main thing is to get out of this situation. But the Kosovo government is not handling this problem properly, and if only the ease of measures starts, then you will be convinced that at the first moment we will demand the right that belongs to us”.