Compensation for those laid off, 12 million euros in expenses expected for decisions in 2025-2028

2025-11-26 08:21:00, Ekonomi CNA

Compensation for those laid off, 12 million euros in expenses expected for

The year 2025 is expected to end with expenses for providing compensation for unfair dismissals or layoffs, worth 284 million lek.

For the next three years, the period 2026–2028, it is expected that another 870 million lek or about 9 million euros will be spent on the execution of obligations arising from final court decisions for those dismissed from work.

This brings the total expenditure bill for the period 2025–2028 to around 1.1 billion lek, or approximately 12 million euros. The data is published in the “Medium-term Budget Program 2026-2028, revised”.

For the period 2026 to 2028, it is expected that the obligations for 425 court decisions with a total value of 870 million lek will be executed. The compensation for each decision is estimated at 1.9 million lek to 2.2 million lek.

For 2026, it is expected that the obligations for 145 court decisions will be executed, with a total expenditure of 300 million lek. The cost per unit (per decision) is estimated at 2.2 million lek.

Expenditures for 2027 are projected at 270 million lek for the execution of payments for 140 court decisions. The cost per decision is estimated at 1.9 million lek.

Payments for another 140 court decisions are expected to be executed in 2028. The total costs are estimated at 270 million lek or a unit cost of 1.9 million lek.

For 2025, the Minister of Finance plans to spend 284 million lek on the execution of obligations for those unfairly dismissed, bringing the total expenditure bill for the years 2025-2028 to 1.1 billion lek or about 12 million euros.

For the provision of compensation for those laid off, 13 billion lek or about 130 million euros were paid for the years 2015 to 2023, according to data from the Ministry of Finance previously provided to Monitor.

Over the previous 9 years, 2015-2023, it turned out that the highest bill paid to those laid off from work who had won court cases was for 2017, in the amount of 1.8 billion lek.

In the total expenditure for final court decisions, the highest payments were made for the execution of obligations for those dismissed from work by the central government administration. The total bill paid for dismissals from work by the central administration for the years 2015-2022 is estimated at 9.9 billion lek. The bill paid by local government for the same period was 2.2 billion lek.

From the municipalities, the highest payments for compensation for those laid off were in 2016 at the value of 315.5 million lek and peaked in 2022, before the election year, at the value of 324.6 million lek.

One of the reasons for the increase in the bill from year to year is the stock of backlogged files, where according to lawyers, in many cases the reasonable trial deadline of up to 3 years is exceeded.

By 2023, their number in the Administrative Court of Appeal was estimated at 23,140 cases, of which 13% were labor relations cases./ Monitor