Friday, November 9 2018 13:03

ArmInfo. Employees of the South-Caucasian Railway (SCR), subsidiaries of Russian Railways, have made the payment of the required salary increments. As the press  secretary of the company Ruben Grdzelyan told ArmInfo, the railway  was restored in full, the management and the staff agreed to pay  bonuses.

According to the representative of SCR, the railway communication is  currently restored in all directions.  To note employees of the  company, dissatisfied with the deprivation of their salary  increments, went on strike for several days in a row. On November 5,  SCR employees blocked the Yerevan-Shorzha (Sevan) railways in the  section of the village Tsovagyugh. They were unhappy with the  deprivation of their premiums. On November 7, the machinists blocked  the road and in the second most important city of Gyumri, the train  did not go, the Tbilisi train got up in Ayrum, buses took passengers.  Meanwhile, SCR is one of the largest employers in the Republic of  Armenia with a team of more than 3,000 people.

On November 8, a spokesman for SCR told ArmInfo that the company's  management is currently negotiating with a view to returning to  normal operation "given that the employee's discontent with the bonus  accrual system is currently being revised (since September)."  Nevertheless, according to ArmInfo sources, the reduction in the size  of bonus payments in SCR is due to the decline in freight traffic.

On the eve of the question addressed by Hakob Arshakyan, Minister of  Transport, Communications and Information Technologies of Armenia. He  expressed the hope that a solution would be found soon, and the work  of the railway would be restored. The question of the possible  "unfair" distribution of the bonus fund according to the scheme "to  the management - everything, to the employees - pennies" he called  the internal affair of the company, namely "the relationship between  the employer and the employees". "Under the concession agreement, the  company undertakes to invest in development and ensure the normal  operation of the railway. However, what internal procedures, methods  and what bonus system the company is guided by is its corporate  policy. The main thing is that the railway should work normally,"  Arshakyan said. Regarding the case in connection with possible abuses  in the SCR, the Acting The head of the Ministry of Transport called  on this issue to appeal to law enforcement agencies, since the issue  is within their competence. At the same time, he stated that the  issue of cancellation of the contract with the Russian Railways  Company, in which SCR is in concession management, is not on the  Armenian government's agenda.-