{"id":265881,"date":"2015-06-15T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T08:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=265881"},"modified":"2015-06-15T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T08:35:10","slug":"electricity-networks-of-armenia-keeps-its-senior-managers-salaries-secret-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/06\/15\/electricity-networks-of-armenia-keeps-its-senior-managers-salaries-secret-statement.html","title":{"rendered":"Electric Networks of Armenia Keeps Its Senior Managers&#8217; Salaries Secret (Statement)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) keeps its senior officials&#39; salaries secret, Union of Informed Citizens NGO said in a statement on Monday, June 15. Based on a letter from the ENA, the organization added, the size of the salaries of the Armenian power utility&#39;s&nbsp;high-ranking officials is&nbsp;kept secret not only from the Union of Informed Citizens, but also &ndash; the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC).<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe NGO recalls that the ENA had appealed to PSRC for the increase of electricity tariffs, claiming the company was unable to cover electricity distribution costs with the current tariff.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;In other words, on June 17, PSRC is to gather and discuss the ENA&#39;s expenses (including salaries), without knowing how much the salaries of the company&#39;s officials are. Thus, the Commission has to blindly consider the ENA&#39;s salaries expense either justified or not.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;It appears that the ENA&#39;s top managers could be earning, say, a hundred million drams a month at the expense of the fees paid by the citizens, for which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/05\/28\/%E2%80%9Chigh-voltage%E2%80%9D-thousands-march-in-yerevan-in-protest-of-electricity-tariff-hike-photo.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">electricity tariff will be raised<\/span><\/a>, but the citizens and the PSRC might never actually know about this,&rdquo; the organization said.<\/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 NGO recalls that the ENA had appealed to PSRC for the increase of electricity tariffs, claiming the utility was unable to cover electricity distribution costs with the current tariff&#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":265161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265881"}],"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=265881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}