Mentoring and coaching the leaders to potentially establish trade union is one of the activities implemented under the ‘Decent Jobs for Women’ project, by Kosovar Stability Initiative and Centre for Policy and Advocacy, funded by the Embassy of Netherlands in Kosovo. With only around 18% of women employed in the formal economy (World Bank, 2019), employment of women in Kosovo is one of the lowest in the world and lower than other Western Balkan countries. The lack of appropriate investigative journalism on these matters coupled with lack of political will of the state to protect the workers’ rights has left women alone in their extremely difficult employment situation. It is assessed that women working in the retail and cleaning industry are the ones suffering most. Although the Law 04/L011 on Organizing in Trade Unions in Kosovo does exist, the workers in the Private Sector do not realize their right to organize, allegedly in fear of being persecuted or fired by the employer. While the focus of CSOs and other actors has, rightly, been on active labor market projects, decent work has been neglected to date. Women and employment, even without the discrimination at workplace is still a challenging area. Existing studies show that women are in an underprivileged position compared to men not only when it comes to employment participation rate but also types of occupation, and income in both private and public sector.
If you are interested, send your CV and Motivation Letter to brikena_berisha@iksweb.org, by 10 of April 2021.
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