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Part of Neman employees to take three-day week

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Part of Neman employees to take three-day week

Many employees of one of the largest producer of glass and crystal goods in the CIS earn Br2.5 million and soon will earn even less.

Employees of OOO Neman (Biarozauka, Lida district) addressed to the editorial office of Salidarnasc.

- In July engineers and labourers have started working three-day week. Before it they used to work five or four days. People earn Br2.5 million. So, it means they will earn even less?! They do not know what to do! There is no other job in Biarozauka. Those who go on vacation are not paid vacation bonuses. They promise to pay them out after the vacation.

Only those with the lowest salary will be working three days. The changes have not affected the management.

Employees believe that a new production of glass wool has not contributed to a rise, but to deterioration.

- All money is spent by the glass wool shop. But nobody buys it, it goes to warehouses! It turns out that both glass wool and glassware are not profitable. They just made it worse. They took out a loan for glass wool. And how should we reimburse it? It seems like that cuts no ice with the management. Officials say that everything is under control. So, it turns out that we flourish!, employees at Neman said.

Journalists asked Valiantsina Nabohez, Deputy Director for Ideology, Social Issues and Personnel, for comments.

- Only about 70 people will work three days (1900 people work at the enterprises). The reason is reduced shipments. Summer is the less productive period because of numerous vacations. Everybody goes on vacation. Therefore, shipments are reduced, she said.

At the same time the Deputy Director signaled that salaries of those working three days would decrease. She disagreed with the statement that there were no consumers of glass wool.

- At the moment we load 20 carriages to Volgograd. We have consumers from Azerbaijan, they sign a contract. You should understand that before launching a new production we have done a great work to find distribution areas. And we have succeeded. I think everything is under control. And also we should have something at warehouses too, for not to say our consumer "please, queue up" or "wait for a month". There should be reasonable stock reserves, Valiantsina Nabohez said.

Since April the production of the glass wool has been launched in a testing mode. Then Director Ihar Batsian said the enterprise had full set of orders for glass wool and its derivatives for that year. Uladzimir Krautsou, Head of Hrodna Regional Executive Committee, expressed hope that in 2015 the plant could make profit not only on glass wool, but on its major production. The Council of Ministers supported the enterprise, having decided to reimburse the interest for the use of bank loans until the end of the year.

In May the State Control Committee informed that Neman has hidden stock reserve for six months: they reached Br109.1 bln or 658.2% to average monthly production output. According to BelTA, instead of additional measures for unloading warehouses the enterprise was trying to conceal the real situation: finished production in boxes with inspection stamp and production date totaled Br4.5 billion was considered semi-finished products. Past due debt for fuel and energy resources is Br132.1 billion.

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