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MAZ Salaries Partially Paid Out With Marshmallows

MAZ Salaries Partially Paid Out With Marshmallows

Officials come up with tricky schemes.

One-time bonuses, speculation on sausages are usual tricky schemes. Such methods are used by some Belarusian enterprises to fulfill the order of Aliaksandr Lukashenka about an average salary of Br1000 in December, Belsat informs.

State-owned enterprises received a circular letter

The leadership of these enterprises are reminded of the personal responsibility for execution of the Lukashenka's instruction to increase salaries in December. However, this letter is followed with another one having instructions how to do it. Internet source naviny.by cites some moments in the letter.

Earlier Nasha Niva made a letter of a reader public. He informed that Borisov Agromash recorded a half of working days as non-paid vacation, although they worked on those days. In the end of a month, they were paid a usual salary.

Enterprises with better working conditions issue one-time bonuses.

They are presented as a New Year's gift. But, according to papers, they are not. All taxes and deductions to the NSSF are paid.

"Now many enterprises pay bonuses. For example, Belkali pays out Br180 to every employee. Hrodna Azot - Br300", Siarhei Antusevich, Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union, tells.

The MAZ leadership came up with a creative method to raise salaries

First, they intended to issue bonuses of Br50, but later they decided to double it. They bought in sausages and marshmallows at wholesale. And later issued it to their employees. It was recorded as if it all was bought at retail prices. The tax on this 'present' is also exist.

Independent Trade Unions treat this initiative with caution. On the one hand, Belarusian employees earn less than it is required because of inefficiency of the state apparatus and corruption. But the administrative increase in wages, according to Trade Unions, can cause a crisis in the near future, as it happened many times before.

Although the last spurt to the specified Br1000 per month is often carried out with the help of tricks and additions, the salary at MAZ, for example, actually has increased by more than 10% this year. But, as a result, the net loss of industrial enterprises has increased by a quarter this year, Belstat informs.

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