Civil Service Day, SPAK: Civil servants disappointed with wages and working conditions

He said that, despite the important role civil service has in preserving institutional memory, the workers' continued demands have not been addressed by institutions.

Unfortunately, even this year, civil servants almost continue to be in a poor state of work, with almost the same conditions, maybe a little bit heavy, with undignified salaries, because, as you know, wages have not grown unfortunately and many other problems taking into account that even today when we speak we don't have the law on workplace insurance, we don't have health insurance even though it's been approved, but the way the form to be implemented is left to be desired by previous experiences since 2014 we have had the law on health security. Then there are other problems that have conveyed civil service, which is really considered one of the most vital and vital pillars that preserves institutional memory, this government has shown no interest in their demands, even though we have directed them and established a continuation of”, he said.

According to Gashi, the failure to comply with the Constitutional Court's Law Act on Salaries has damaged civil servants and public officials.

The “Po is not good for reasons that you, as you know from 2024 until we speak the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, and neither has the Kosovo Parliament made the completion of the wage law as binding, as the Constitutional Court has stated, that in some form we can say that civil service and public officials are damaged in terms of salaries and other claims. Then there are other conditions. It is a fact that we have had a situation or an institutional revelation, but I say the right to the government's benefits and the benefits of MPs have not stopped, there has been no obstacle to enjoying and advancing”, he said.

He said inflation and economic conditions have contributed to increased discontent and removal of kuads from public administration.

“When in the matter of labour rights, working conditions, but also salaries taking into account the heavy economic situation and heavy inflation, I mean, right this has not been done anything for civil service, and civil servants are actually extremely disappointed. It's going off, but the worst is, don't say that the interest to be employed in the civil service is extremely small with the particular emphasis on deficit positions for reasons because the salaries which the public sector offers and the salaries the private sector offers are diametrically distant”, he said.

Gashi urged increased the value of the coefytor for 50 per cent, implementation of health insurance and signing of the collective agreement.

I ask first, and we've also directed official paperwork to increase the value of the cofficient. The cofficient's value is still 110 euros, and I demand that this increase be made according to the conversation with us, according to workers' demands, and given the situation and inflation that has occurred. Our demand has been to increase the value of the cofficient by 50 percent of the current value. And we insist, insist on the fact that the long-term failure has affected. Then there's the problem that we have energy growth, we have rising prices of basic products, big inflation and so on. Then there is the problem of urgently becoming a complement of the Law of Salaries, as the Constitutional Court Act has said. The beginning of the Health Insurance Law. Application and the start of implementation of the Law for Work Security. To advance and see the possibility that working conditions are handled with high priority”, he said.

He added that Kosovo remains the only country without collective agreements and urged refunctioning the Economic-Social Council.

“As well as the signing of the collective agreement that we are the last country, or told to me that we do not have collective agreements and that continued demand has been to become refunctional to the Economic-Social Council as the mechanism where it all serves us to discuss together we, the government and private sector representatives. It would have been nice and I want to believe that it's the last time we deal with the same problems because just our demands I introduced here are requests of almost all public officials, and we for years are promoting them, we're looking for them, and they're absolutely not taken for basis by the government”, he said.

June 23rd marks International Civil Service Day, dedicated to assessing the role and contribution of public servants to the development of society and strengthening state institutions.

Civil Service Day has begun to be marked by decisions by the United Nations General Assembly on December 20, 2002, when this day has been set as the traditional date for the United Nations Service Day marking, writes Online Economics, the Periscope broadcast.