AAK proposes 30% salary hikes for public sector workers until the adoption of the Salat Law

The head of the AAK parliamentary group, Besnik Tahiri, has said the government has failed to adopt the Law of Salaries. Meanwhile, it has added that with the proposed budget for 2023, it is seen that wage increases are not included.

Kosovo's “government has disappointed all public officials, telling them that it will bring the Law of Salaries, and by failing to implement the Law of Salaries. They played a low game, marking some 80 thousand public officials now and for so long. From the analysis of the budget, we see there is no way of raising salaries in the public sector”, Tahiri has indicated. Our request for Government is an institution, where linear wage growth will be required for at least 30%, until the adoption of the Law of Salaries, besides officials who are politically elected, he has added.

Meanwhile, MP Paul Lekaj has added that in the budget for 2023, there is nowhere to be put forward to raise wages. No salary raise is, no salary raises for health servants, nurses, teachers, no categories. With the proposed amendment, we will ask for 30% salary increases for all public sector workers. Otherwise if the government still doesn't act, you see what we're in, we see what inflation we're facing. This proposal is affordable for Government, so I hope we'll meet with understanding”, Lekaj said.