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ARTISTS BOYCOTT OPERA PERFORMANCE TO SHOW THEIR PROTEST AGAINST PENSION REFORM IN ARMENIA
by Karina Manukyan
Tuesday, February 11, 12:05
On February 10, the artists of the National Academic Theater of Opera
and Ballet after A. Spendiaryan boycotted Anush Opera to express their
protest against the mandatory accumulative pension system introduced
in Armenia. Members of the public interest group "I'm Against!" also
joined the protest. Spectators were reluctant return their tickets
and leave.
People are discontented not only at the mandatory component of the
system but also at the absurd situation following the Constitutional
Court's decision of January 24 that suspended some provisions of
the Law on the Accumulative Pension until the Court considers its
constitutionality on Mar 28 2014. The Court suspended Article 76
stipulating responsibility for refusing to make compulsory pension
contributions or failing to do in time and Paragraph 3 of Article 86
saying that the employees covered by the system should choose a pension
fund. Nevertheless, the Finance Ministry of Armenia urges employers
to calculate and make accumulative pension payments and employees to
choose a pension fund and a manager for it. The picketers call the
given approach a robbery.
Earlier on 6 February, another large-scale protest against the pension
reform was held. Then, employees of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
and Haypost Company joined the action of protest against the mandatory
accumulative pension system.
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by Karina Manukyan
Tuesday, February 11, 12:05
On February 10, the artists of the National Academic Theater of Opera
and Ballet after A. Spendiaryan boycotted Anush Opera to express their
protest against the mandatory accumulative pension system introduced
in Armenia. Members of the public interest group "I'm Against!" also
joined the protest. Spectators were reluctant return their tickets
and leave.
People are discontented not only at the mandatory component of the
system but also at the absurd situation following the Constitutional
Court's decision of January 24 that suspended some provisions of
the Law on the Accumulative Pension until the Court considers its
constitutionality on Mar 28 2014. The Court suspended Article 76
stipulating responsibility for refusing to make compulsory pension
contributions or failing to do in time and Paragraph 3 of Article 86
saying that the employees covered by the system should choose a pension
fund. Nevertheless, the Finance Ministry of Armenia urges employers
to calculate and make accumulative pension payments and employees to
choose a pension fund and a manager for it. The picketers call the
given approach a robbery.
Earlier on 6 February, another large-scale protest against the pension
reform was held. Then, employees of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
and Haypost Company joined the action of protest against the mandatory
accumulative pension system.
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=A55E63C0-92FB-11E3-BC600EB7C0D21663