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Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The long process of visa liberalisation is being completed with approval by the European Parliament, but in Kosovo it is being described as a factor that could affect the increase in the number of citizens leaving Kosovo. Although visa liberalisation does not mean work permits, only freedom of movement is viewed as an opportunity [...]
Although visa liberalisation does not even mean work permits, freedom of movement is viewed as an opportunity to obtain contact and then a work visa application. So the Private Sector Workers Union has been alarmed. The opposition is asking the Government to draft concrete plans on how the country will become more viable for the population, and especially for the young.
Jusuf Azemi, chairman of the Independent Private Sector Union, based on the current trend, envisions an even greater flight of the population from Kosovo after visa liberalisation, expected on January 1st, 2024.
Under free movement rules for countries that are not members of the European Union, you are not allowed to work during your stay in the Schengen area.
But, Yusuf Azem in a proposal for Gazeta Express, has said that the time when young people will stay in EU countries will enable them to create contacts, therefore to find jobs to then apply for working visas.
The escape trend will be much faster because workers know that in 3 months they won't be able to work properly, but they'll be easier to create contacts and reach a:"x1>, Azemi said.
He has shown that this escape trade union was investigated five or six years ago.
We've informed the state and companies, but we've run into deaf ears“, stressed Azem.
A young man now paid 250 euros, even if he gives him 1,000 euros of salary, he has determined to leave“, he added.
The salary is not the only cause of escape, according to Azemit é, who listed a host of problems facing the private sector.
There is no health insurance, pension trust, collective mind contract, and minimum wage has not moved“, it has continued.
For the minimum wage, he believes it should not be less than 500 euros.
”Page 250 minimum euros no longer accomplishes in this” situation, he has warned.
The Kosovo government has approved the minimum wage 250 euros net, as well as the Assembly has voted it in first reading but is stuck to be approved.
For the minimum wage, but also for many other issues of criticism against the Kosovo government, there are deputies of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Ferat Shala, who has said the executive should be aware of the risk of mass population evacuations.
The” Po is a great truth that visa liberalisation will greatly affect the departure of young people from the country, who during the government's government have lost a hope, lost confidence in a job country, lost confidence in a managerial transparency, lost confidence in a major change promised to“, Shala said. This is a factor that can affect the departure of many young people, but it will also have a profound impact on the issue of the country's economy. And to stop the worst from happening, it would have to change policies in relation to the part of our youth's treatment, change social sphere policies, policy in stimulating youth schooling, and finding a merited workplace”.
The opposition MP has urgently asked the Government to draft a strategic plan, on the contrary Kosovo will bear the consequences.
The government would urgently have to draft a strategic plan, in the short term to have job creation, to have serious investors creating jobs”, Shala has said.
The Kosovo government has repeatedly claimed there is a decrease in unemployment based on data from the Kosovo Statistics Agency (ASK).
But Shala describes this as government propaganda, saying there are only formalisations of jobs.
The opposition considers unemployment to be one of the causes of youth leaving Kosovo.
By 2021, over 43 thousand citizens had released Kosovo.
Unemployment, working conditions, health and education have been consistently praised as the main factors reflecting the depopulation process.
