An amployee of the Armenian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has been fired because of photo with Armenian ex-president Robert Kocharyan.
"A few weeks ago, I wrote that a government employee named Anna was fired because of a photo with the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan. Today, I already have permission to make this case public, Armenia bloc MP Agnes Khamoyan noted.
“We are talking about an employee of the Unified Social Service of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia. The photo was posted on May 1st. It was not published by this employee. Civil servants must exercise political restraint. I emphasize this episode in order to show that the employee did not conduct any propaganda, only her photograph with President Kocharyan was published, which led to the dismissal of the latter,” Khamoyan said.
According to her, over these 4 years, especially after November 9, there are many cases when people working in the state apparatus are fired from their jobs just for one “like”.
Anna herself, on the same broadcast, spoke in detail about the fact that the next day, on Monday, she was told that the story with this picture would not be easy, she would receive "what she deserves."
According to her, an instruction was given to strictly monitor her entry and exit from the building.
“I was not a leader, I was not engaged in agitation, and it was by no means me who published the photo. I have not violated a single point of the Civil Service Law. And a week later I was told that the contract concluded with me was cancelled,” said a former employee of the Unified Social Service of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia.