
Despite the reforms undertaken against informality in the country, it continues to be present in different forms. One of the forms of informality in employment is working without a written employment agreement.
During the year 2023, the State Labor Inspectorate has recorded a total of 2,502 employees without individual work contracts in the inspections carried out or about 1.2% of the total of these employees recorded in total. Compared to a year ago, there are 15% fewer employees without employment contracts.
The data on employees without work contracts only in private entities, according to the type of economic activities, show that most of them are in the Trade, Hotel-Bar-Restaurant sector with 1,323 employees, 424 individuals were found in construction and 434 individuals in the manufacturing industry.
On the other hand, minimum wage employment results in 20% of the employees registered at work in private activities inspected during 2023. In total, 9,820 private businesses and about 201 thousand jobs were inspected.
In 2023, from the inspections carried out, 2506 administrative measures were imposed, representing about 25% of the inspected subjects. This shows that during the inspection, various violations of the labor law were discovered and appropriate measures were taken to correct them.
Administrative measures may be imposed for violations of safety rules at work, working hours, wages, etc. Regarding the percentage distribution of penalties, it turns out that 44% are "Suspension" for flagrant violations of labor relations and safety at work, 50% are "Warning", 6% are "Fine" measures.
It turns out that against the number of inspections, the Regional Directorate of the State Labor Inspectorate of Dibër went with administrative measures in 84% of the inspections, the Regional Directorate of Vlora went with administrative measures in 59% of the inspections.