11 minutes agoLack of workforce is bringing big business problems
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Lack of the workforce is bringing big problems to local businesses. This is stated by the Private Sector Union in Kosovo. Economists estimate that poor treatment of workers has led to this situation. As recent KSF publications speak of some 750 thousand economically inactive people in the labour market. [...]
Economists estimate that poor treatment of workers has led to this situation. As recent KSF publications speak of some 750 thousand economically inactive people in the labour market.
The latest data published by the Kosovo Statistics Agency estimates that more than 77 thousand people are unemployed and around 750 thousand are economically inactive.
Speaking to Radio Kosovo, Yusuf Azemi, from the Private Sector Union in Kosovo, expresses his scepticism about the data published at the ASS for non-active power in the country.
He says businesses are in big trouble with lack of the workforce.
A company asked me to find a worker with 500 euros of salary, food and transport. I still can't find a worker who would work under these conditions, because there's a shortage of them. Businesses are in big trouble with a lack of workforce. Now, a simple worker I asked for on the basis of a company's demand and under good conditions, I can't find it until the AS-SK data doesn't know how they refresh them, but in reality it doesn't stand by”, he said.
Undecent employment on specific profiles for what they even study, low wages, and long-term hours are some of the causes that hesitate people to look for work, estimates economist Ardijan Sahiti.
According to him, our businesses do not treat the worker well at the workplace.
“Citizens demand more and more, and their demands are in line with business opportunities, but businesses themselves do not react. I see the problem in the entrepreneur himself in our country, I don't blame the workers, if it were the problem with the non-active workforce, or the problem in our population, then countries like Germany wouldn't have asked for workers and they wouldn't have made relief at their embassies for Kosovo. The problem is not in our population or culture as a society, but in our business mentality, which, unfortunately, does not seem to be changing”, he said.
However, economic connoisseurs estimate that institutions must have a serious approach to this phenomenon.
