Sogojeva: Every day, up to four businesses say they lack workers, but there is no mass escape

Kosovo Hotelier and Tourism House Chairman (OHT) Hysen Sogojevo, has said they have information from businesses that lack employees, as a cause of visa liberalisation, but that the situation in the field is not what they predicted this large evacuation would be..

He has said it is disturbing that the Kosovo government's interest in drafting any plans or strategies for preventing this phenomenon.

Sogojevo said there is no mass escape of workers, but that their departure might be later.

“Although we have warnings that we will have a slightly larger employee movement, it has not been noticed so far. But there are trends, there are times that every day there are two, three, four businesses telling me they are in the absence of employees. But we don't have a rapid flow, we think that maybe after the first three months there'll probably be an improvement of time, and there citizens get jobs in the west. There may be some conditions, but I think what needs to be posted is that it's not with that Europe that you give to”, he said.

The OHT chairman has said that in businesses it is being observed that they have improved working conditions for workers and that there are increases in wages.

The “on the basis of information means that there are tendons of improvements in conditions compared to two years ago, there is a tendency because even owners started seeing small salaries do not hold the worker. We both Ode defend business, but business has to keep in mind that with this normal standard that needs to increase wages and meet the conditions for staying in place of work”, he said.

Sogojevo has said there is an exaggeration as to the departure of workers from the country and that this should not be exaggerated.

He has been critical of the government that he is not planning to prevent this phenomenon and that he is not even meeting Odas and businesses to find solutions to the issue.

There's no movement so far, no mass movement. It doesn't have to blow things up, that some analysts have started, and some people are overreacting to this number of workers leaving is not. I don't see government plans, nor has a meeting been held about this phenomenon. It needs to be distributed, it needs to go out through the field, it needs to make sense of this issue, and it has to be possible that through the Odas, various associations, with businesses working to get me closer to the business so that we don't have to leave workers in the future. There are no strategies, there are no meetings to be held in relation to the sensibicisation of this issue that is quite phenomenon. All that saw tourism development in Kosovo is due to the private sector”, he has said of EO.