MASS DISCHARGINGS IN SYUNIK SOUTH BRANCH OF “ARMENTEL” COMPANY

KAPAN, MAY 29, NOYAN TAPAN. 38 enployees of the Syunik south branch of
the “ArmenTel” CJSC were notified on May 26 that they will be
discharged on May 29. This decision, according to notifactions given
to them, is provided by volumes of the production in the company,
change of conditions of economic, technological and labour
organization. According to Article 116 of the RA Labour Code, in the
case of mass dischargings, the employer is obliged to inform employees
and send a corresponding notification to the RA State Employment
Service not later than 3 months before dissoluting the job
contract. But the Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by the
Territorial Employment Center that they had not got such a message
from ArmenTel. And the discharged employees, finding that they were
illegally discharged are going to address to the court.

Vladimir Vardanian, the Director of the Syunik marz center of the
company informed the “NT” correspondent that dischargings are again
expected soon, and 180 employees of 333 ones of the marz service will
not lose their jobs.

According to him, “stations are being made digital, and keeping so
many vacancies becomes needless.”