{"id":275190,"date":"2016-10-20T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275190"},"modified":"2016-10-20T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T13:10:47","slug":"former-employees-of-idling-textile-plant-gather-outside-government-building-to-demand-back-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/20\/former-employees-of-idling-textile-plant-gather-outside-government-building-to-demand-back-wages.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Employees of Idling Textile Plant Gather Outside Government Building to Demand Back Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Former employees of a textile plant that used to operate under the National Police of Armenia, formerly knows as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and supply uniforms to the country&#39;s law-enforcement bodies gathered today outside the government building in Yerevan to demand AMD 30 million in back wages that the protesters claim they are owed. &ldquo;Continent Text,&rdquo; demonstrators said, was shut down five years ago but nearly 140 former employees have yet to receive their pay for the last months of production.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We even have a court decision in our favor that has obligated the plant&#39;s management to sell the property and pay the employees&#39; wages. But there&#39;s nothing worth selling in that plant; everything has been decayed. We&#39;ve been going door-to-door for more than 3 years but we can&#39;t get anyone to pay us our money,&rdquo; protester Gohar Tamamyan, who is owed over AMD 1 million, told Epress.am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;It&#39;s like [staging protests] outside the Government building has become our job; we&#8217;ve applied to every possible state body, and they have all assured us that we would soon be paid. But it&#8217;s been 3 years, and we have yet to receive a penny. Doesn&#8217;t the national police chief [Vladimir Gasparyan] see that his former employees are going door-to-door asking for their money? He is unreachable to us; it&#39;s impossible to get him to meet with us,&rdquo; Tamamyan 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>\u201cWe even have a court decision in our favor that has obligated the plant&#8217;s management to sell the property and pay the employees&#8217; wages. But there&#8217;s nothing worth selling in that plant; everything has been decayed&#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":275183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65612,12336,65613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275190"}],"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=275190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}