''Increasing the minimum wage and supporting business, a government priority''/ Lushnje, Prime Minister Rama in the industrial complex with 2000 employees
Prime Minister Rama, who is attending meetings in the city of Lushnja, stopped today at an industrial complex where a South Korean company operates, which today has around 2,000 employees out of the 300 it had at its creation and aims to further expand its capacities to 3,000 employees.
The Prime Minister praised the high standards of production and working conditions, emphasizing the importance of such investments for economic development and increased employment.
In his conversation with the employees, Prime Minister Rama focused on the government's policy to increase the minimum wage, emphasizing that this will continue as an important priority for improving the well-being of citizens.
''In the beginning, make no mistake, when I arrived there were 300 workers and I listened very carefully to the description of the company representatives, who shared with us the ambition to scale up production and the only concern they had was whether they would find the necessary workforce.
Of course, it was a not unfounded concern, but I am extremely happy that today there are about 2,000 employees here, 1,996 to be exact, and the ambition is to reach 3,000. And I am also happy that, from all the information we have received about the company, the opinions of the employees are positive and this is shown by the fact that the employees do not leave the company. It is not simply a matter of opinion, but the fact that they do not leave the company shows this. And at this point, the thing that is most important, beyond the salary, is the fact that the company takes care of all the guarantees for the employees and, on the other hand, takes care to either provide those extra hours for the third shift, make no mistake, or to guarantee the entire system of relations between employees and employers, based on ethical standards, which are in fact the standards that every company should have. And therefore we are confident that the company will also achieve the objective of reaching 3,000 employees.
We will, in the meantime, continue to increase the minimum wage. We have made this commitment, but we have also made the commitment that, by increasing the minimum wage, we will support this growth process with transitional phases that facilitate employers, so that they can adapt to the new growth, as we are currently doing, where the first nine months after the wage increase have social and health insurance covered by the state fund, the insurance fund, and not by the employer. It is precisely this daily reality of Albania's affairs that makes Albania today in a different economic position; that Albania today does not have less than 10 billion euros of total production, but has 27 billion and aims to reach 35 billion in this decade; that Albania no longer has 300-400 million euros of foreign investments, as it had when we took this step, but reaches 1.6 billion, a significant figure this past year. This is a figure translated into economic reality and which causes salaries to increase in both the public and private sectors; so that budget revenues increase to make more investments and, of course, to increase awareness that working people must be respected, not simply by giving them a salary, but also by recognizing their seniority, which happens in this company, but which has now become law for the public sector as well.
Not that we didn't know and didn't want to respect it, but we didn't have the opportunity.
Today, the economy gives us this opportunity to tell teachers, doctors, police officers, military personnel, and administration employees that when a certain number of years pass, seniority in work is read into the salary, not simply as honor and respect for the person.
Likewise, salary indexation is another thing that we have introduced as an innovation in the financing of employee salaries, something that we didn't have until yesterday, because we didn't have the opportunity to have it. "And so on, the increase in pensions, and so on, and so on, " Rama said in his speech.
Rama: We significantly increased salaries and per capita income
Prime Minister Edi Rama, also chairman of the Socialist Party, at the meeting of the SP Lushnja Assembly, brought to attention some statistics that prove......
Rama: The opposition speaks against the country in Brussels, negotiations continue according to the calendar
Prime Minister Edi Rama, also chairman of the Socialist Party, stated today that in no other case has it happened during the negotiation process with the......
Lushnje, DPSHTRR is modernized - New building with significant expansion of services for citizens
Following the day's activities in Lushnja, Prime Minister Edi Rama inspected the new building of the Regional Directorate of Road Transport Services......
Rama: Farmers' union is a necessity - "Only by uniting can everyone earn 30% more"
Prime Minister Rama emphasized the importance of uniting farmers, with the aim of achieving standards for the large European Union market. In a meeting with......
"New approach, encouraging cooperation between farmers" - Rama: Concrete benefits. Balluku: Young people are increasing in agriculture
Prime Minister Edi Rama held a conversation today with farmers in Krutje, Lushnja, on increasing investments in agriculture, new fiscal incentives and......
"Farmers in Myzeqe have built their lives on the land and hard work" - Balluku: Myzeqe remains one of the most important agricultural areas
The political leader of the Socialist Party of Fier district and MP Belinda Balluku said during a meeting with farmers in Krutje, Lushnja, that thanks to the......
ARRSH: Works on Llogara's connecting roads reach 65%, completion before the summer season
The Director of the Albanian Road Authority, Ami Kozeli, has closely inspected the progress of the works for the construction of the road segment of the......
Malaj in Lushnja: 31 million euros in subsidies and a new VAT scheme for farmers in 2026
The Minister of Finance, Petrit Malaj, during a meeting with farmers in Lushnja, emphasized the government's increasing support for the agricultural sector,......
