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ARMENIA'S NPP MAY FACE LACK OF PERSONNEL, IF SALARIES ARE NOT REVIEWED
Tert.am
21:24 22.09.11
Armenia's Nuclear Power Plant is set to face a shortage of personnel
after 158 of its employees submitted resignation letters on September
20 over their salaries.
The employees submitted the letters after receiving no response to
their request sent a month earlier to the NPP's management, Armenia's
president and the minister of energy and natural resources.
In the request they had asked to review their salaries against the
backdrop of inflation, the recent hike in prices.
Speaking to Tert.am, Lusine Harutyunyan, the spokesperson of the
minister of energy and natural resources, said that their letters are
at the ministry and that the ministry will inform about the results
of their reviewing.
Since September 5 Armenia's NPP is currently under a 46-day planned
renovation.
Asked what is being done to tackle the issue, given the personnel
shortage is a component of the NPP's security, Suren Amanyan, the
head of the staff of the State Committee of Nuclear Security at
the government, said that it is the Ministry of Energy and Natural
Resources that deals with the issue.
He also said that the Committee is dealing only with technical
security issues.
Armenia's Labor Law on collective contracts (Article 49) stipulates
that the salaries of holders of collective contracts is defined,
taking account the level of inflation and rise in prices.
Yura Dolinyan, President of NPP's trade union, said that employees of
the NPP have signed collective contracts which, however, do not have
mechanisms that regulate the amount of salaries on basis of inflation
and rises in prices.
The Armenian government is acting as an employer in those under
those contracts.
Tert.am
21:24 22.09.11
Armenia's Nuclear Power Plant is set to face a shortage of personnel
after 158 of its employees submitted resignation letters on September
20 over their salaries.
The employees submitted the letters after receiving no response to
their request sent a month earlier to the NPP's management, Armenia's
president and the minister of energy and natural resources.
In the request they had asked to review their salaries against the
backdrop of inflation, the recent hike in prices.
Speaking to Tert.am, Lusine Harutyunyan, the spokesperson of the
minister of energy and natural resources, said that their letters are
at the ministry and that the ministry will inform about the results
of their reviewing.
Since September 5 Armenia's NPP is currently under a 46-day planned
renovation.
Asked what is being done to tackle the issue, given the personnel
shortage is a component of the NPP's security, Suren Amanyan, the
head of the staff of the State Committee of Nuclear Security at
the government, said that it is the Ministry of Energy and Natural
Resources that deals with the issue.
He also said that the Committee is dealing only with technical
security issues.
Armenia's Labor Law on collective contracts (Article 49) stipulates
that the salaries of holders of collective contracts is defined,
taking account the level of inflation and rise in prices.
Yura Dolinyan, President of NPP's trade union, said that employees of
the NPP have signed collective contracts which, however, do not have
mechanisms that regulate the amount of salaries on basis of inflation
and rises in prices.
The Armenian government is acting as an employer in those under
those contracts.