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Rama: The private sector should also reflect on the salary increase, no more enslavement of employees

Rama: The private sector should also reflect on the salary increase, no more

Prime Minister Edi Rama was in a fashion factory in Durrës this afternoon to ask the private sector to increase the salaries of employees and not keep them at minimum levels. Rama said that just as the government is doing with the new salary policy that is increasing them from the minimum to the average and so on according to their hierarchy, the private sector should also act.

"We live in a system that does not allow the government to set salaries in the private sector. But on the other hand, we cannot sit and watch if certain companies do not respond to employees with dignity and use wages that are alms for exploitation and not real wages for families. What we can do is, first, set the minimum wage, and that's what we've done. The minimum wage has now increased to 40,000 ALL, we will bring it to 45,000 ALL within this term, and the goal is that in 2030, Albania will not have a minimum wage below 60,000 ALL," said Rama.

Rama: The private sector should also reflect on the salary increase, no more

However, he said that there are companies that, although with work processes of a high difficulty, declare fictitiously minimum wages, denying the pension due to these employees.

"We cannot see how, for example, construction companies, which have a job with a degree of difficulty that is not low, present salary balances with minimum wages. This is unacceptable. Construction companies do not pay workers minimum wage but do something else, which is so low and so unacceptable, that they hand over a part of their salary. By handing over part of the salary and taking advantage of the fact that the employee is obliged to receive the salary, they actually rob the employees of their pensions and health insurance," he said.

According to Rama, these construction companies will not be allowed to enter the public tender processes, nor will they be given construction permits.