Unlike the Kurti Government, last “Vitti over 50,000 workers have lost their jobs”

SPS Chairman Yusuf Azemi in an interview for Kosova Prees has said that ATK's data are not the same as their data as the number of workers who lost their jobs during 2021.

Azem: Over 50,000 workers have lost their jobs in contracts and labor packages.

Our data doesn't match the ATK data and other data, since we consider workers even those who didn't have work contracts. In 2021, we have somewhere around, including the pandemic, it's reached over 50,000 with labor contracts and packages.” he said.

Azem tells of their proposals regarding the minimum wage.

Azem: We're fighting for this salary to be 400 euros

We've come into a situation where the worker doesn't even ask the government, but he may not even ask the union for the minimum wage... the government of Kosovo can't intervene because the employer and employee himself and when it comes to minimum wage, we're fighting that this salary is 400 euros, since in Kosovo about 3000 workers are paid on this salary... 03:32 As for the minimum wage issue she has her journey, we cannot sanction it, we will ask that it be what we're looking for, but on the other hand, the Government of Kosovo may have been better off not changing at all than at a price of 250 euros. They are the same requirements that have been made before previous governments. We don't have a working law enforcement, a collective agreement that is not signed at all, a law enforcement on security and labour health, and we're asking that these laws that are to be effective in terms of the employer-employment report should be implemented”, Azem stressed.

According to him, workers don't work for a salary of 250 euros, and that's why companies will be losers.

Azem: The biggest losers will be companies, workers don't work for 250 euros.

The biggest losers will be the owners of companies because the employees don't work for 250 euros, so we have our price and my price, I decide, not the government, and whoever else... in many physical construction companies and insurance companies, they've started accepting workers who are only retired, who are in the absence of a labour force”, He says it.

It further shows where the minimum wage is to be given.

Azem: Minimum wage must only be given in some natural disaster or when the company is in bankruptcy

The minimum wage under normal conditions cannot be given to the workers, since that minimum wage on the basis of international labor organisation's laws that imposes on us, it dares only be given in the state of the country, if there is any natural disaster that is reasonable, and if the company goes into bankruptcy, the company has the right to give the minimum wage, otherwise in normal conditions it dares not give the minimum figure of”, He said.

Independent Private Sector Union has done a research saying a four-member family cannot survive under 460 euros' salary.