KEK operating risk warned, private companies engaged in lack of workers

The Kosovo Energy Corporation is reportedly contracting a private company for the engagement of about 50 technical workers, providing services for mechanical skills and cleaning at the Kosova plant B.

In an answer to the Express Journal, KEC has said this service is contracted by working hours and according to the needs presented on the field and has nothing to do with the number of workers, adding that the need could be provided for 2, 10, or 30 workers per certain day and hour.

KEK's spokesman, Skender Bucolli, has provided details about this contract, pointing exactly to the services offered by the contracted company.

“The 4458 protocol has been signed with 27.06.23 worth 203,958.37. m and has to do with providing services for mechanical skills and cleaning at the target of TC “Kosovo B” for B-1 and B-2 units, (for delivery of services to: steam generators, car hall, assistants, mazut system, chemical water preparation, electrolysis, circus station, internal and external transport system of ashes, etc.) Hence, this service is contracted by hours of work, and according to the needs presented on the field and does not involve the number of workers. (so the need for 2, for 10, or 30 employees per certain day and hour)” is said to answer Booth.

According to Bucol, such KEK services have bought even earlier and that even this contract is a continuation of offering services of this nature.

The implementation of the signed contract, he has suggested it would begin after 5 August, when the contract deadline that was signed in 2020 ends.

Moreover, the same service was published on e-procurement in 2020 with no. AP KEK-20-1342 -2-1-1- three-year framework contract, contract title - Mechanical Skill Services and purchase of clean-up services contracted to 05.08.200 by No. In protocol, KEK 7027 worth 742,856.25m, the deadline for this contract's completion is dt: 05.08.23, with the end of this contract beginning to implement the current one-year contract, so it is a continuation of offering the services of this nature”, Bucolli has declared.

From the KEKA Workers' Union, they say this is not the first time this company engages private companies to perform jobs, in the absence of its workers.

Nexhat Llumnica from this union has told Gazeta Express that the private company's commitment to such work is over a decade old.

According to Llumnica, KEKAU lacks 2,000 workers based on the 2016 organizational scheme.

The private company's involvement is not only now, it was 12 years or 13 years. It's constantly because it's a huge shortage of workers. He lacks over 2,000 workers, according to the 2016 organizational scheme. But in 2023 alone, 256 people will retire”, Llumnica for Express.

Asked why he wasn't completing these places, he mentioned cancelling the competition, while pointing his finger has political parties saying they are competing over who is hiring the most.

Problems at KEK, Llumnica says they have been starting for a long time, but that the peak has reached since Nagip Krasniqi's arrival at the helm of KEK, which has been suspended from this post following arrest.

The previous competition you have has been cancelled and political parties are normally pushing who with the most job and here's the problem. The problems at KEK have started with the weather, but they have now reached a recent peak, especially since the arrival of Director Nagip Krasniqi. It's the block everything”, Llumnica said.

According to him, if these jobs are not met, the operation of the company may also be at risk.

I suggest competent institutions that as soon as they open the competition for jobs, because the Kosovo Energy Corporation may one day not produce in the absence of workers. We have a coal-making division that's missing tremendously. KEK's operation may also be threatened soon if new workers are not employed. It is surprising to us that in Kosovo people fled the cause of unemployment, while in KEK, after so much lack of”, Llumnica has declared.

Otherwise, in May of last year, the Kosovo Energy Corporation's competition for the completion of 150 free jobs was cancelled, in which family employees of the LVV officers were employed in Obilic, as well as relatives with members of the accession commission.

The independent commission for the evaluation of the recruiting process made up of the independent legal expert engaged in the EU reform project in public administration, independent expert on recruiting processes and KEK legal official has completed today. Based on the recommendations of the independent commission, Mr. Nagip Krasniqi, chief executive of the Kosovo Energy Corporation, has made the decision to cancel the process starting with selection, writing test results and oral interviews for all positions announced under the competition for the completion of 127 free positions, as well as the repetition of these stages for all candidates meeting the pre-representing criteria with the 20/x1>, the announcement says.

“Based on findings, the independent commission has given recommendation for annulment, results of the written test and oral interviews for all 127 contested positions, based on which the executive chief of the Kosovo Energy Corporation” decision has been made, KEK reported.