Thirteenth Salary for the public sector – an economic measure or Kurti’s discriminatory political instrument?

The thirteenth salary, paid on the last day of March together with the regular salary, helped public sector employees in Kosovo address financial problems on a one-off basis, but it lacks an economic foundation—particularly in conditions of rising prices of basic goods and inflation, according to interlocutors of Kosovo Online. They view the government’s decision as a political instrument through which Prime Minister Albin Kurti seeks to win the support of a “secure group of voters,” while the exclusion of the private sector from this measure is assessed as discriminatory.

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