Invited this morning on Wake Up show on Top Channel TV, the founder of The Headhunter, Elton Ilirjani, discussed regarding the issues of payment of cash by job seekers to get a job in the private sector, as well in the public one.
"Of course it also happens in the private sector - stressed Ilirjani - The employment market is entirely infected. It's an incredibly abusive action prohibited by law. I can say that it is at the level of a crime, those who do this should be punished by the Albanian courts. In the private sector there are about 13 licensed employment companies, most of which, as our candidates copmplain, receive payment before or after hiring candidates in a particular company, which is prohibited by law. Such practice is forbidden by law for hiring companies. For this service the client is the one who pays, so the company that hires the candidate itself and not the job seekers. "
Regarding the type of payment and the amount Ilirjani added:
"Mainly it is paid in euro currency, then in Albanian lek and the dollar comes after. The client pays us from 1.5, up to 3 gross monthly salary. That means if someone has a salary of five thousand euros, we get paid by the client even 15.000. Imagine how much someone will pay for a high position in the private sector paying for recruiting companies, which is horrible. Private companies use the services of private employment companies to make the selection, but the companies themselves or recruiters has a strategy to receive salaries from the candidates. When I was in my early days in 2004 in Tirana, a company required me to sign an employment contract on 0.5 gross salary if I would get the job. I was not informed, but after I was hired, I did not pay, as the law prohibits it "- stressed the head of the largest employment company in Albania and beyond.
Ilirjani closed by touching some other disturbing phenomenon and urging jobseekers but also state structures.
"Payments made to the workplace are not only monetary, there are also sexual favours asked in exchange for a job in the private and public sector. Candidates do not have to pay any money to recruiting companies, it happens that the institutions licensed by the state are taking money and police officers can send camouflage agents to hit this kind of economic crime and prevent corruption. "
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