There are no salaries for miners. The Trepca Management comes out with a new deadline.

The miners' salaries are expected to be executed early next week. Thus has declared the task of chief executive chief of the company “Trepca”, Faton Ahmeti, who was appointed to the task about a week ago.

“E has a conviction that early next week wages for miners will be executed on the basis of what we talked to miners”, Ahmeti told Koha.net after the meeting he held with representatives of the Independent Union of Minors today.

The miners have not yet received the June and July salaries. They are determined not to return to work until the execution of wages.

The Kosovo government has come out last week in response to the situation in Trepca, but without offering any solutions for wages. Financial support has conditioned it on a pledge.

In response, the serious situation in which this company is located is confirmed, stressing that it is operating at a loss “as the result of the impasses in production and insufficient revenues. ” “The Ministry of Economy has supported the company with subsidies worth 3.3m euros, which is beyond the planned amount for the entire year.

However, these tools have not been enough to ensure the coverage of employees' operational spending and salaries, which make up the considerable share of company spending”, it says in response.

According to the executive, the only way to stabilise the company's financial situation and regular compensation of employees is to increase production and revenues and reduce spending. “We expect the company's challenges to be addressed in a clear, effective and sustainable manner.

In particular, the Government of the Republic of Kosovo expects the company to ensure increased production and revenues and reduction in spending, as the only way to achieve the company's operational and financial situation and regular compensation of employees steadily”, is said to be further in response.

It stresses that financial support will depend on the plan and concrete commitment to lower spending and resume production.

The government of the Republic of Kosovo remains in constant communication with the company's Watch Board. We ensure that all sides are fully committed to a long-term solution, in line with their legal competencies and responsibilities. At the same time, the government is addressing the plan proposed by the US company Trepca. Financial support depends on the plan and concrete commitments that will reduce spending and resume growth of”.