Slave labour at Barysau Grain Products Plant

Workers and professional employees of the plant have been ordered to take an unpaid leave for three weeks, but continue to work.

Charter97.org learnt it from the website's reader.

Management of the Barysau GraineProducts Plant and its branch Borimak invented a brilliant scheme of using free labour of employees of the plant.

“The Grain Product Plant in Barysau carries out an overhaul of the compound feeds shop. Plant director Viktar Askerka, who, by all appearances, has never read the Labour Code, decided to economize. All employees must take an unpaid leave for 21 days by November, but all have to go to work,” the reader says.

He added the measures has not affected workers of Borimak plant yet, but professional employees already file applications for a leave.

“Many rushed to look for a job, but all fear to be dismissed. Prosecution agencies and the labour inspection do not react, but I think it's rather easy to bring the situation to light: people work 18-17 days instead of 20-21 every month. At monthly meetings we are told about excess profits, most of which brought by Borimak. But the branch director, Piotr Askerka, cannot defend his employees, because he is a brother of the director of the Barysau Grain Products Plant,” the reader is confident.