Hoti: It was a year ago that he appointed members of unions at the Pension Trust Board, lawbreakers to be responsible

LDK MP Avdullah Hoti has said it has been a year since the Pension Trust Board has remained without a member of unions. He says it constitutes legal violations and that those who violated the law should be held accountable.

“Non-recognition for nearly a year of membership by trade unions on the Pension Trust Board is a legal offense, which should not be passed without responsibilities from violators of law”.

Hoti says union rights in Kosovo have been violated by Kurti Government on a continuous basis.

The IKD's last response is additional evidence of this. A member of the Trust of Pension Savings Board, which represents workers and comes from trade unions, was never appointed. Initially, the Trust was left without board for several months, resulting in billions of euros left without adequate management. When the board was appointed about a year ago, no members of the unions were included. The reasons given for this were that none of the applicants met the legal conditions. It hasn't been re-declared since the” competition.

Due to this negligence, Hoti says they are BQC Governor, Minister of Finance and General Auditor.

These three top state officials -- representing the pillars of institutions managing and monitoring economic and financial issues in Kosovo -- have neglected their legal obligation for workers to have their own representative on the board and managing their pension savings.

Hoti says this negligence “doesn't have to be deliberate”, until it adds that unions have been neglected throughout this government's mandate.

“They are not taken into account in preparing the wage law, nor the law for public officials. Both of these laws have ended up in the Constitutional Court and have had to be changed. During the mandate of this government, which itself calls left, has fallen union organisation. This is attested to by half of union membership payments, resulting from government pressure on unions at different levels of union organisation and in various forms. Unions today have the right to sue the state and these three officials for breaking the law. The bias for law enforcement is a violation of the law, and violation of the law is a criminal offense”.