Business inspections in areas with tourist influx - Focus on informality and working conditions
Officially in the tourist season, day by day tourist flows are concentrated in the most visited areas of Albania. Meanwhile, the Labor Inspectorate continues controls to minimize informality.
In an interview with Scan TV, the Director of the Inspection Directorate, Erida Qosja, emphasized that the approach this year is that every risk-based plan is the main objective of control, mainly during the tourist season.
"One of the measures worth discussing is the movement of staff, which means strengthening the directorates, and sending inspectors from the regional directorates, to areas that do not have this concentration of the tourist season, to areas where we have peak employment or to business areas. Mainly in the coastal area because the focus of attention is there, but also in mountain tourism. The work plans have been approved by the regional directorates."
Qosja also emphasized that this institution has modernized the planning of controls through the MIRA platform.
"It is very important to say that the Inspectorate today, this year, has a much more modernized approach, in terms of its interventions, increasing its capacities, and we can say that it is an inspection body that we have very high expectations for, for the control, or fulfillment of the mission that this institution has in relation to the tourist season, which we are all witnesses to, which has a significant number of issues that need addressing, related to informality, the employment of foreigners, the employment of minors, employees under 18 years of age, their working conditions, labor relations, gray informality that is reflected in underpayment, or incomplete declaration of salary, for which."
In the first 5 months of this year, there is a downward trend in informality.
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