{"id":268738,"date":"2015-10-22T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T11:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=268738"},"modified":"2015-10-23T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T10:02:19","slug":"armenian-glassmaking-company-employees-hold-protest-demand-6-months-back-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/10\/22\/armenian-glassmaking-company-employees-hold-protest-demand-6-months-back-wages.html","title":{"rendered":"Glassmaking Company Employees Hold Protest, Demand 6 Months Back Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Glass World Company, located in the town of Byureghavan in Armenia&#39;s central Kotayk province, owes its 300 employees 3 to 6 months&#39; salaries. The staff has repeatedly picketed the plant, demanding repayment of their back wages. Not having succeeded, however, the workers held a protest action on Thursday in front of the Armenian government building.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn an earlier interview with Epress.am, the employees said the company&#39;s general&nbsp;director Babken Sedrakyan had promised to pay off the wage arrears until August, 2015. &ldquo;Sedrakyan has now taken an indefinite leave of absence, appointed lawyer Armen Torosyan to act in his stead and bear the brunt [of the protest],&rdquo; Glass World Company locksmith Arayik Gevorgyan said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tProtester Karen Jamalyan added that the company is deliberately being led to bankruptcy. &ldquo;We call the lawyer, he answers rudely &#39;Do you know who you&#39;ve called? Call the owner.&#39; They promise the money will be given, but they do not know when there&#39;ll be any. The owner is Russian; we&#39;ve never seen his face.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAleksander Ghazaryan <em>(pictured)<\/em>, head of the Government&#39;s Department for Reception of Citizens and Discussion of Petitions, told the demonstrators Thursday afternoon the Cabinet could not help them since Glass World Company is a private firm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Ghazaryan said we can go to court if we want to. That&#39;s exactly what we&#39;re going to do. If they don&#39;t pay us, we&#39;ll block the Sevan-Yerevan highway. Further actions are being discussed. The management says there&#39;s no demand, but our output is also gone. If it&#39;s been sold, then where is the money?&rdquo; protester Arayik Gevorgyan stated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking to our reporter, former employee Edgar Martirosyan said he resigned after the management announced on August 8 the plant was at a standstill. There are people, he added, who&#39;ve taken a leave at their own expanse and do not know whether the plant will ever be re-operated.<\/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>Speaking to our reporter, former employee Edgar Martirosyan said he resigned after the management announced on August 8 the plant was at a standstill. There are people, he added, who&#8217;ve taken a leave at their&#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":268731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62858,62088,10266,12928],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268738"}],"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=268738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}