Protecting jobs, Rama: Support for businesses after the minimum wage increase
In his weekly podcast, Prime Minister Rama spoke about the support that will be given to businesses due to the increase in the minimum wage. The Prime Minister said that the purpose of this measure is to maintain economic stability, protect jobs and prevent any attempt at informality.
"Following the decision we made in December of last year, or more precisely, that we made official, as we had promised in our electoral campaign to increase the minimum wage from 40 thousand to 50 thousand lek, we immediately took the next promised step to alleviate the impact of this increase on businesses, by undertaking to pay the entire increased cost of insurance for employees for a period of 9 months, and this was sealed at the last government meeting, where the financial compensation of social and health contributions for employers for the period January-September 2026 was approved.
So, the state will cover 16.7% of the contributions on top of the salary difference for each employee who was previously paid in the range of 40 thousand to 49,999 lek. This means that businesses will not face any additional cost for contributions, while employees will receive a higher salary, which, as we have predicted, as a minimum wage we aim to increase further and become significant by the end of our mandate.
The goal is clear, maintaining economic stability, protecting jobs, preventing any attempt at informality above the norm, while we fight with the norm and compensation as a concrete expression of respect and support for business, definitely putting employees first," said Rama.
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