{"id":242533,"date":"2013-10-31T14:44:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=242533"},"modified":"2013-10-31T14:46:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:46:29","slug":"armenian-bus-driver-sues-employer-wins-case-in-two-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/31\/armenian-bus-driver-sues-employer-wins-case-in-two-courts.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Bus Driver Sues Employer, Wins Case in Two Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Former driver of the number 89 <em>marshrutka<\/em> (minibus) Hayk Gasparyan, 66, went to court to protest inhumane working conditions and won the case in two judicial instances, reports local daily <em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em>.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGasparyan, who worked for a private company that operates a public transporation route, sued the owner of the company, demanding 10 years&rsquo; worth of his salary. Speaking to the paper, the bus driver said that the number 89 <em>marshrutka<\/em>, as well as the owner of the number 75 and 77 routes, is RA Minister of Urban Development Samvel Tadevosyan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to Gasparyan, none of the drivers have received the salary that is in their contracts. The Court of First Instance, considering the complaint, obliged the route&rsquo;s official owner ST Trans Mobil to pay Gasparyan 1 million 300 thousand AMD (about $3,207&nbsp;USD) in compensation, but the company appealed the ruling. The Court of Appeals, however, sustained the lower court&rsquo;s ruling and now the case is at the third and final level in Armenia, the Court of Cassation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;80% of the drivers are cracking under the debt. I got angry, got up on my feet,&rdquo; said Gasparyan, adding that all the drivers are supporting him, but are afraid to join him. &ldquo;Do you think too few people were beaten on the route?&rdquo; he asked.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>The article can be read in full in today&rsquo;s issue of <\/em>Haykakan Zhamanak<em> (in Armenian only).<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former driver of the number 89 marshrutka (minibus) Hayk Gasparyan, 66, went to court to protest inhumane working conditions and won the case in two judicial instances&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51223,16266,16265,51224,51225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}