6 hours agoTrepca's chief engineer: Pay problems and lack of investments are forcing migration
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Working in the mine remains one of the most difficult and dangerous professions in the country, where other than physical challenges, miners face serious working conditions every day, lack of technical security and insufficient wages. Low wages, difficult working conditions and lack of investment in infrastructure, especially in improving [...]
Low wages, difficult working conditions and lack of investment in infrastructure, especially in improving microclimate within mines, have become serious problems that directly affect the health and safety of workers.
These unfriendly conditions are forcing more and more workers to leave the country, leaving the sector without a labour force.
By the union that the miners have raised the alarm for the need for immediate and concrete interventions to avoid major problems in the company.
The head of the Miners' Union, Ibrahim Januzi, has raised concerns about the serious conditions the miners are working on, especially with regard to microclims within mines and the lack of needed investments.
He said high temperatures and lack of equipment are seriously affecting workers' health.
“The miners' biggest challenges are the basic conditions, especially microclimate in the mine, is extremely necessary due to high temperatures, and because of no investment in the company, it is creating challenges to miners and their health”, he said, after Front Online.
Januzi also stressed the difficulties in realising wages due to debts accumulated over the years.
“There are challenges in realising salaries due to the final issues of accumulated debt obligations and debts over the years has created difficulties in realising wages in the deadlines, in recent months we have managed somewhat with serious difficulties”, he said.
On the other hand, the januzi also complained about wages, saying that wages are very low against inflation.
“A miner's salary has remained very low compared to market price movements with inflation in the country, with the company's debts being left at a crossroads and we know how to act”, the potencoi Januzi.
According to Januzi, financial instability is pushing many miners to seek job opportunities abroad.
“No financial sustainability is negatively affecting the decisions of miners who are emigrating abroad in the past few years workers”, Januzi concluded for “Front Online”.
