3 minutes agoProsecution intervention required: Ministry withdraws from decision on strikers' salaries
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The right to strike is guaranteed under union action, so even any action to prevent it is contrary to the law Online Economy has told Guzim Shala from the Kosovo Institute for Justice (IKD). He says IKD has seen with great concern the request of the Finance Minister that [...]
He says IKD has seen with much concern the request of the Finance Ministry to stop payments from any person participating in the strike, adding that this is a violation of workers' rights.
According to him, the Ministry of Finance should withdraw from this decision, also demanding the prosecution's intervention to ascertain whether we have criminal acts.
We need to keep in mind that the right to strike is guaranteed under union action, and in this direction if strikers in some form are penalised for their strike itself loses meaning. And that's why the Kosovo Institute for Justice has seen with great concern the demand to stop the payments from any person participating in the strike, and in fact it's a violation of the rights of workers who, through strike, want and pressure the government to meet their” demands.
The Article on which the Ministry of Finance is called does not stand by that interpretation she says because in the concrete case, it is about the obligations that workers have in relation to their work. This approach of the finance ministry can also enforce criminal responsibility because violation of the right to strike when it is done through illegal acts entered the criminal field and has to do with criminal responsibility”.
The first “to do is for the Finance Ministry to withdraw from this decision and if the state's procurement continues to be activated in the direction of the investigation of this case to ascertain whether or not we have a criminal offence”.
An email was circulated in the media, in which the acting secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Enis Spahiu, warned that wages would be suspended for workers who would participate in the strike.
Despite the government's threat that the strikers will be suspended, the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Kosovo(BSPK) has claimed they are already on strike.
BSPK head At and Hykoli has said the government is threatening strikers and that this is illegal. He called this a huge mistake of government.
