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With the liberalization of the conditions for hiring foreign workers, Albanian entrepreneurs, whose primary concern was reducing wage costs and not the long-term prospects for business performance, began to bring in foreign workers en masse.
In fact, something like this became a trend. It seemed that Albanian owners had found “El Dorado.” Sometimes it was a move to keep the domestic market under pressure, to tell Albanian workers that they are not irreplaceable and not to overdo it with their demands.
"Sometimes many businesses do not prefer to hire Albanians just because they cannot meet their salary requirements, choosing the foreign market. A way to show that I find employees to do it and I won't hire you ," said employment expert Erion Muça.
"It was seen as an opportunity to fill vacancies, since they could not attract the domestic market. This led to the foreign experiment. With the arrival of the workforce, the goal was to contain costs, salaries, accommodations, but these were often overlooked by the hosts, so it was seen that there are some tricks that reduce costs," said employment expert Arbër Xhihani.
In an attempt to minimize costs, some Albanian entrepreneurs, aided by abusive recruitment agencies, have violated Albanian legislation at the expense of workers. With full awareness, they have not respected even the minimum conditions set by law for the treatment of foreign workers.
Based on Law No. 79/2021, it is clearly established that Albanian entrepreneurs who hire foreigners must meet basic conditions and be treated the same as locals.
The National Employment and Skills Agency gives its approval if the foreign workers are not employed under less favourable conditions than Albanian workers in the same position. From the review of information regarding wages, working hours and other employment conditions, they are in accordance with Albanian labor legislation.
But does that really happen?
"There are undignified treatments and unacceptable accommodation conditions. They put not only the worker in difficulty, but also the host company, as they have legal responsibility. Despite the fact that they try to avoid it by using informality and the connections they have with foreign workers," said Arbër Xhihani.
"The problems faced by people who come mainly from Africa and Asian countries are not individual problems, but systemic. Failure to respect the labor code, failure to implement rules properly by institutions. This leads to a problem with the abuses suffered by these citizens, as it also happens with institutions," said lawyer Suada Posteca./ TCH
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