{"id":253423,"date":"2014-05-16T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253423"},"modified":"2014-05-16T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:21:33","slug":"employees-pressured-by-employers-to-contribute-to-pension-fund-urged-to-retain-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/16\/employees-pressured-by-employers-to-contribute-to-pension-fund-urged-to-retain-evidence.html","title":{"rendered":"Employees Pressured by Employers to Contribute to Pension Fund Urged to Retain Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The new funded pension program creates a lot of inconvenience since it forces citizens to submit a written request to opt out, said Davit Khazhakyan, a member of the pressure group Dem Em (&quot;I Am Against&quot;) against pension reform, at a press conference in Yerevan&#39;s Media Center today. He said that the group will continue to hold protests, as the matter is not yet resolved.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;As one of our protestors said, if 80% of the population is opposed, why should that 80% submit a written request? The other issue is we were fighting against the mandatory system; now, however, the system has remained mandatory &mdash; it&#39;s people&#39;s participation that&#39;s voluntary. This means that the struggle has to continue and the controversial provisions have to be removed,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Now we have to wait for the bill to be made public. After that we will develop and publicize a version of the appeal. Also, awareness and other types of campaigns will continue,&quot; said Dem Em member Lusine Vatyan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMembers of the group urge all workers who will be placed under pressure (to contribute to a private pension fund) to make the issue public and not pay tribute to employers to contribute to the pension system.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Pressure is literally a crime. It would be good for those who are put under pressure to retain evidence, to use in court,&quot; said Khazhakyan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, Armenia&#39;s National Assembly at its second reading yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/15\/funded-pension-law-passed-in-second-reading-ruling-party-members-voted-for-each-other.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>adopted the revised bill<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on the mandatory funded pension.&nbsp;<\/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>The new funded pension program creates a lot of inconvenience since it forces citizens to submit a written request to opt out, said Davit Khazhakyan&#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":253410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[53443,11703,53142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253423"}],"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=253423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}