UPA professors are being forced to replace official holiday hours. Is the Law being violated?

Frequent official holidays in Kosovo have become a problem for the academic staff of Pristina University. A regulation now and many months is forcing professors to replace lost hours during holidays on other working days. For this, complaints have been addressed to the reactor and whether this decision will soon be changed...

Pristina University Steering Council, in October last year, had approved REGULAR for personal income of academic staff, additions to function and other compensation. However, Article 27 is presenting a problem of dissatisfaction with academic staff.

According to this regulation, they are being forced to replace classes that have been dropped over holiday days for several months.

Standard hours that fall during official parties stipulated by law must be replaced.

So literally it says at Article 9 of this regulation.

In this regard, Periscope has contacted the University of Pristina Union. Representative Butterfly Demak has declared that she has already been addressed as a matter at the Steering Council. Upset and waiting for answers.

We, like the UPI trade unions, are addressing the Steering Council on this matter. They have replied that they are reconsidering the decision in question. We'll wait for the review of this decision, and after reconsidering whether the regulation is not a reform labour law, then we'll react, Demak told Periscope.

Whether or not there are violations of the Labour Law and the rights of workers, the Labour Inspectorate in Kosovo has failed to show once. Agim Millaku, lead inspector, in a premonition to Periscope has said that ordering as an internal act can be done as such only if the additional hours are paid to teachers in this case.

It is an internal act that can be done by their agreements except that it should not conflict with the Law. That's if they don't get paid for party hours. If hours are paid, it's okay. It can't be against the law. We're not dealing with that. It's their case, Millaku said about Periscope.

Labour Law, when mentioned official holidays, says so:

According to the Government's official calendar, an exact 11 official holidays are held in Kosovo throughout the year. According to the Law, if the holiday is on Saturday or Sunday, then the compensation is made on a day of work, usually on Mondays.

Just last month, there was a five-month break on Monday in a row, and a Tuesday./ P ERISCOPI/