Azem: Running workers from Kosovo extremely large takes a decade to restore the workforce

Kosovo Private Sector Union Chairman Jusuf Azemi was declared about leaving the workforce from Kosovo, where he said the departure is great and that the owners of companies are feeling that lack, while state institutions are not dealing with them.

There is no company that doesn't say there's a shortage of employees, the fact that there's a lot of workers in the window, that there's a lot of workers that are looking for workers, and the fact that many projects that are being launched this year in the absence of the workforce are left behind, and that this burden is mostly being felt by the owners of companies that have only now begun to claim, that state institutions are not actually feeling because they are not dealing with them, he said.

According to Azem, possible elections in Kosovo will not affect the situation of the escape of the workforce, and that according to him, the departure of workers is due to the failure to implement the law by company owners.

For Kosovo private sector workers whenever elections are held tomorrow, this will not affect them at all, because workers the overwhelming part of them have made up their minds and it's actually a massive escape, earlier with a lot of policy leads to a little bit of debate, I'm saying, but now private sector workers are fed up with statements of the former governments, and even this government, it actually does not lead to anything. And the Avaz will continue, the labour force market has lost in Kosovo is not that it was a year ago, a year and a half and these have made it knowingly, since we haven't taken any steps to at least slow this flight from Kosovo”, he said.

But what are the reasons for leaving Kosovo?

I was running out of workers in the first place because the owners have not implemented any laws that we have in relation to employers, employers, nor the Labour Law, nor the Law on Health and Safety at Work, nor any other laws. We have a lack of collective agreement that meets the Labour Law, we have a minimum wage that is not in force yet, which we're saying with this minimum wage it has absolutely only irritated private sector workers because with 250 euros you have nothing to do. These actions have only created antipathy in workers because we are actually living here, and the private sector worker who receives a salary under 700 euros cannot survive at daily and monthly expenses”, he went on.

Likewise, Azem says it is not now the time of protests, but it is time for visa liberalisation, where he has also made his own.

“It's been a time of protests, we've always protested the minimum wage and for better conditions, we really haven't found common language. Now is not the time of protests, now is the time of escape, visa liberalisation has made it its own, the worker is now unable to shake his eyes to either the company's owner, nor the government for 10-20 euros, already finished. They're already feeling the shortage of employees to owners of companies, and I'm convinced it will cost them a lot, but all other actsors, he said.

“Currently for the departure of workers in the first place is positive for private sector workers is visa liberalisation and in the second order are the former governments, but the current government, because I say, let someone find it in the past governments even in this government that someone has done something for Kosovo private sector workers, and we often make comparisons as long as our countrymen are our brothers and sisters, the government of Kosovo goes and stimulates security policy for those who have actually done something of their capital, because it's capital, and it's not going to die in the workplace, it's a very hard drive for us. And, we're offering a 100m-euro stimulus to businesses, for us this is just propaganda, and it's a moment when prior to elections come up with these versions, but the reality is equal to zero”, it went on to Azem.

According to him, neither the Government of Kosovo nor political parties have done anything after their concerns arose, and that, according to him, battle and war have been lost in this case.

The concrete “Rest, we have technical workers working right in the Kosovo Assembly and they get salaries of just 275 euros and we've raised our concern, we've protested on this issue, we've announced all parliamentary groups and nothing has been done. Neither the Kosovo government nor all political parties that create the Kosovo Parliament that are reported in this case, or perhaps say better with this scandal, have acted. So where we have to go further when at the very height of their house there are legal violations of private sector workers”, he said.

I'm sorry to say that we have lost both the battle and the battle with this case because we have protocol requests at the Government of Kosovo to sit down and prevent what we can prevent because we realize that even in Germany and Switzerland, workers are becoming movement, but still there are greater workers in us, the worse off that we don't have a large number of workers and are mostly qualified workers. To tell the truth, all we can do today is be late and in vain, all we can do in the short term is that if the owners of companies argue with the payments they make to the workers by looking at each other, we can say there might gradually be a difference. Otherwise, if a company owner comes out today and says he has 1500 euros each of his employees, it's a period for two and a half decades only to lie, and it's a good time to restore the trust of workers who have fled and left their families”, the potential Azem for Gazeta Blic.

Finally, Kosovo Private Sector Union Chairman Yusuf Azemi says it takes a whole decade to restore the workforce.

The “to return the workforce at least may take a decade because when people go there we know they don't expect paradise, but all those who have come out know they've made a capital, they've made a home, they have a good social situation, they take a good vacation in Kosovo, while we have to think about whether we can go with basic things at the end of the month that can't actually come out. We have wages today that take 300 euros and imagine a family member who, under legal regulations, should retain four family members, what he can do for 300 euros. For every day we are entering the biggest gap, the huge portion are in loans, and there are many cases that even the few equipment at home have gone and taken away, and there is no perspective”, concluded the chairman of the Kosovo Private Sector Union, Yusuf Azemi.