The Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Mr. Skender Reçica, today participated in the presentation of the Labor Market Barometer in Kosovo, organized within the project “Harmonization of Education and Training with the Needs of the Labor Market – ALLED Phase II”, funded from the European Union and co-financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), and implemented by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), who also thanked them for their contribution even in these difficult pandemic circumstances.
“It is a fact that the pandemic has put the labor market and employment in difficulty in Kosovo, but we intend to alleviate this situation as little as possible through the Law on Economic Recovery, which will help with financial support a large number of employees who have lost the job, where we as the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, through point 3 of the Economic Recovery Plan, aim to subsidize the wages of about 2,000 employees and will also continue with active labor market measures, as well as training and professional training “, said Minister Reçica.
Mr. Reçica also said that the main problem of the labor market in Kosovo is the incompatibility of professional skills with the needs of the labor force required by the labor market, where we as MLSW / Employment Agency have closed several times a year with the request to cover thousands jobs, while in the register of jobseekers we have about 200,000 jobseekers. Therefore, he said, as the Government of Kosovo we must coordinate to find the solution to unemployment in Kosovo, first to address the number of registered jobseekers with a special plan and then to create education policies based on the needs of the labor market, also empower vocational training schools.
At the end of his speech during this presentation, Minister Mr. Reçica said that we, as MLSW, are extremely committed to advancing the digitalization of work processes, the provision of public employment services as well as professional training services, but we still need more coordination. of all institutions but also the private sector, in order for these professional trainings to be in coordination with the needs of businesses.