The Dibra Prosecutor's Office has announced that the miners' protest, which began after the dismissal of Elton Debresh, the chairman of the United Miners' Union of Bulqiza (SMBB), announced on November 17 it was legal. In the letter brought on December 30, 2019, the Prosecutor's Office announces that there will be no criminal prosecution for the union miners.
"After the nearly 1-month investigation, on December 30, 2019, the Prosecutor's Office of Dibra came to the conclusion not to initiate criminal charges against the trade unionists, calling it unfair and legally unfounded!", the union writes on its official Facebook profile.
The union issues wages to miners fired in violation of the law
The Trade Union Federation of Industrial Employees of Albania, part of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Albania (KSSH) has published the salaries of former miners Elton Debreshi, Behar Gjimi, Ali Gheta and Beqir Durici, who have been involved in the creation of SMBB since April. In their posts, they have also included the salary of the miner Gëzim Basha, currently working with the AlbChrome company.
On January 11, a list of the monthly salary of former miner Behar Gjimi was posted, payment arranged chronologically, from 2016 to 2019. During the following days, the same procedure was followed with other miners who were fired after protesting for several days in a row.
Processing of employee data, according to the law "For the protection of personal data", is done if the individual in question has given permission. This processing is allowed to be carried out only by an official authority, defined by law. In Article 6 of this law, it is stated that the declared data cannot continue to be made public, if the subject has shown disagreement and opposed their further processing.
This law states that the instructions of the Commissioner for the Right to Information and Protection of Personal Data must be taken into consideration in order to respect basic human rights and freedoms.
Commissioner Flora Çabej (Pogaçe), in guidance no. 11, dated 08.09.2011 on "Employee data processing in the private sector", in point 12.7/a prohibits the dissemination of personal information related to salary.
*Citizens Channel/Antenela Ndrevataj
