The minimum wage increase, government helps small businesses or bankrupt

The rise in minimum wage worth 264 euros is considered to be harmful to small businesses. That's how economic experts are considering that the Government helps microbusinesses, whether by rent subsidies or in various forms, in order not to go bankrupt.

The Kosovo Assembly saw the opposition, ten days ago it adopted the Law for the Minimal Pagan. Finance Minister Iron Murati has announced that in Kosovo there are 80,985 persons paid less than 264 euros a month. According to him, there are maintenance workers, physical security, cashiers, builders.

However, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo on Friday sent it to the Constitutional Court, the Law for the minimum wage.

Economic experts urge the Government to take necessary steps in this direction in order to prevent increased informality.

Economy recogniser Besnik Avdija tells Kosovo that some of the small businesses have trouble maintaining this criterion in this way, he says most small businesses will go bankrupt.

Even the chairman of the Kosovo Economic Ode (OEK), Lulzim Rafuna, says that the minimum wage increase would harm small enterprises.

According to Rafuna, prior to the law's conduct there has had to be an assessment of how much minimum wage growth will affect these businesses.

Rafuna adds that there is a need for small businesses to help so that they do not suffer any minimum wage damage.

In this direction, he says the state should help these businesses with fiscal policies.

However, researcher from Riinvest, Wisar Vorkri points out that the minimum wage increase could affect increased informality in workers.

Otherwise, with 60 votes for and one abstention, the law for the minimum wage was passed 10 days ago. This law envisions the minimum wage being made at 264 euros. No amendment has been supported by the vote.

Meanwhile, it has been almost a year since this bill was adopted in principle.

The review of this document is suspended under the argument that consensus with KLA veterans is being targeted that the bill does not guarantee retirement to the minimum wage measure. Amendments to this have handed over to the two opposition parties in the country, The PDK and AAK, where they had sought to hide from the net bill, with which they come from the benefit of the minimum wage, the category of war veterans, paraplegics, tetraplegics and blind persons. However, neither is supported by the position at the moment of the vote.

Protesters have also voiced opposition to this law. They have also met with the president, Vjosa Osmani, and are awaiting recognition by the presidency office experts.

The veterans have warned protests before the Parliament even Wednesday of next week.