“We're also in crisis” 50 euro extensions required for private sector

The government has decided that additional 50 euros worth of additional public sector workers will be added this month, but still silence for private sector workers. This decision “for someone mother and for someone stepmother” is considered unfair by the private business community. The same requires that the executive review these decisions and simulate all employees without exception.
The head of the Private Sector Union (SPSPK), Yusuf Azemi, tells Kosovo that the government has had to take care of private sector workers, as according to him, salaries in this sector are much smaller compared to the public sector.

According to him, the government is not improving mistakes it made even in the past when it only helped public sector workers.

“in the first place is required to stimulate the country's private sector workers, because private sector wages are much smaller, the number of workers paid for state crates is about fourfold larger than that of public sector workers, and when it is known that private sector workers are working a much heavier job, and public sector workers are expected to have become an extremely unstable decision ...and in the first case when it was divided, we thought after the pressures, after reports that we are much worse than they are, we thought that at least a moment would come up and the prime minister would say we apologize”, Azemi says.

Kosovo Chamber of Commerce and Industry General Secretary ( D TIK), Shyqi Bytyqi, claims the government's decision to add only to public sector workers is unfair.

He adds that in crisis all workers are indiscriminately. According to Bytyqi, these decisions should necessarily be reviewed on the part of the government so that all sectors can be stimulated.

A government decision in the situation we are currently in would be very positive, due to continuing crises that are continuing to be, are hitting all sectors, both public and private. However, the current decision that is continuing in the same way to stimulate only the public sector is not right. This reasoning of ours has powerful arguments, the government's decision has a basis because of continued inflation, but we consider that inflation is not only in the public sector, it is also in the private sector, the more when it is already known by statistical data, we have the average salary in Kosovo is much higher in the public sector than in the private sector, and such discrimination is unreasonable and illegal. These decisions should necessarily be reviewed by the government in order for all sectors to stimulate”, Bytyqi says.

Even Gastronomers' Association Secretary Arian Vranica considers that the workers' situation in this sector is much more serious than that in the public sector.

We, as involved in protecting rights in the gastronomy sector, clearly noted that the state of workers in this sector is extremely unmatched with the state of public sector workers... We're facing a severe economic crisis every day, and this is making it harder and harder to liquidate operational spending, in this case even for employee payments... We are seeing that there is no support, so businesses themselves must respond to the problems caused by macroeconomic circumstances reflected in the gastronomy sector”, Vranica says.

We remember, that additions from 50 euros to the public sector started in September 2022. Finance, Labour and Transfers Minister Hekuran Murati argued the decision to divide the 50 euro surplus for public sectors and support of 60 euros for health workers, saying this is being done because the wage law has not yet entered into force.