The minimum wage is still unearthed

The minimum wage still remains 130-170 euros. Despite the promise of the Government of Kosovo for increased mining wages, this bill is continuing to drag on from power every year. That's how opposition MPs estimate

The LDK requires that the minimum wage be turned back with the argument that it is out of the economic and social context in the country. While the AAK considers the government is failing to adopt laws that do not.

The second-read minimum wage bill has been passed to the Commission for Boards last week, but power is still puzzled whether to proceed as such as the draft law at the session or to withdraw from the Kosovo government. In the meantime, economic connoisseurs consider it important to see how the minimum wage comes to be, according to them, the possibility of increasing the sum from what has been presented.

The head of the Vetevendosje Movement Parliamentary Group, Mimoza Kusari-Lila, after meeting Monday's chairmanship stated that the draft law on the second reading minimum wage has been passed to the Board Commission last week, but has stressed that it remains on a government decision whether it will proceed as such at the session or withdraw from the Kosovo government.

That the law should be pushed back by LDK deputy Avdullah Hoti also says. According to him, the Law has been discussed more than a year before it enters the price-growing crisis, with the quote, says even the minimum wage they have proposed is out of the country's economic and social context.

Hoti demands that all categories receiving their pensions should be included at stake.

In addition, MP from the AAK ranks Paul Lekaj says this government has failed in terms of adopting laws. According to him, the government has lost the reason to be in government and the first to go the better it is for Kosovo citizens.

While economic connoisseurs call on the government to make all the parameters necessary for the minimum wage. According to them, compared to the inflation crisis in the country, the proposed salary is not enough.

Economy recogniser Besnik Avdij says that for workers even 250 euros today is not enough if price hikes and living costs are taken into account in the country.

That the minimum wage law should be increased, says the chairman of the Kosovo Economic House (OEK), Lulzim Rafuna.

Remember, the Kosovo Assembly on June 14th last year has voted in principle the bill, which paves the way for the minimum wage increase. The adopted bill envisions the growth of the minimum wage to 264 euros gross, or 250 euros, net, from 130-170 as it currently is. The bill, however, does not envision the connection of minimum wage to veterans' pension, as it has been in the past. If approved on second reading as it is, veterans will continue to receive pensions worth 170 euros.