{"id":282015,"date":"2017-09-08T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=282015"},"modified":"2017-09-08T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:12:12","slug":"unpaid-workers-of-vanadzor-tpp-protest-regional-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/09\/08\/unpaid-workers-of-vanadzor-tpp-protest-regional-administration.html","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid Workers of Vanadzor TPP Protest Regional Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of former employees of the Vanadzor Thermal Power Plant today held a protest outside the office of the regional administration to demand several months\u2019 worth of back wages, <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/armtimes.com\/hy\/article\/120021\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Armtimes.com reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The protesters were met by Lori deputy governor Arsen Darbinyan who told them governor Artur Nalbandyan was out of the country. Darbinyan then advised the protesters to come back when Nalbandyan was back in town.<\/p>\n<p>According to the protesters, they have been fruitlessly struggling to get their wages for years: \u201cWe\u2019ve appealed to all possible state institutions, written complaint letters to a number of officials, but no one wants to oblige the management to pay us,\u201d one of the protesters told an Armtimes reporter.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, the former employees of the thermal power plant, which is part of the now bankrupt Vanadzor-Khimprom enterprise, went to court to get their wage debts. The court ruled in favor of the applicants; however, the ruling has yet to be implemented, and over 150 former employees are still waiting to receive their 4 months\u2019 worth of back pay.<\/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>According to the protesters, they have been fruitlessly struggling to get their wages for years: \u201cWe\u2019ve appealed to all possible state institutions&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66047],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282015"}],"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=282015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}