The leader of the Vetëvendosje Movement, who is also the acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, during the presentation of his party's program, said that starting this year, the legal definition of the 13th salary will begin, while adding that the 14th salary will also be targeted.
"After the dialogue with the private sector, our goal is to gradually plan the 14th salary in coordination with businesses and workers," Kurti declared.
The president of the Private Sector Union, Jusuf Azemi, spoke about this promise. He described this commitment as excessive for Klankosova.tv.
"I'm saying it's not excessive. From my point of view, it's nothing more than madness. He kept his promise about the 13th salary, but we expected the same thing to happen for the private sector, but this hasn't happened. We expected that we would at least be supported with half the salary. Now he says that we will stimulate private sector workers with 100 euros each," Azemi told Klankosova.tv. "Now if the 14th salary happens, it means that private sector workers are paid 15 times less than public sector workers, while we are three times the budget funder than public sector workers," he stressed.
Among other things, the head of the Union called on private sector workers to be more aware of their position and rights.
"I call on private sector workers to be aware. I cannot tell them who to vote for. But private sector workers work much harder and have much more work than those in the public sector, who work in much more comfortable environments. It is understood that this action of Kurti is a campaign for votes," Azemi added.
He also expressed concern that a large portion of private sector workers may remain without benefiting from the allocation of 100 euros by the Government.
"I fear that half of the private sector workers will remain without this allocation of 100 euros, because according to World Bank statistics, somewhere around 30 percent are without employment contracts, some companies have programmed debt, according to the criteria set by the government, while perhaps 20 percent of workers do not know how to fill out the forms required for application by the Government and thus will remain without the 100 euros," concluded Azemi.
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