ArmInfo. About 166 million drams will be allocated for the payment of wage arrears to the staff of the Nairit plant in Yerevan from the Reserve Fund of the Armenian government. The decision was made at the January 24 meeting of the RA government.As noted in the certificate - substantiation of the draft decision, the funds will be sent to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia.
In addition to the salary solution, it is also envisaged to provide financial support for the safe storage of chemical materials available in technological systems, containers and devices, and the safe storage of equipment at Nairit Plant CJSC. To note, employees of the enterprise periodically hold protest actions demanding payroll payments, which, according to them, have not been paid for more than 7 months. Officially, they ensure the safety of the enterprise, and for this reason are issued in the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Earlier, ArmInfo reported that in the courts of Armenia there are claims of 132 factory workers who demand to cancel contracts signed with Nairit-2, under which they refused fines and singing for non- payment of salaries and agreed only to receive salaries. According to former chemical plant director Karen Israelyan, the amount of fines and penalties that Nairit was obliged to pay for non-payment of wages over a long period of time reaches about $ 15 million. To recall, the chemical giant of Armenia - Nairit plant has been idle since March 2010. The company completely stopped working in 2014. The total debt of the company approached 50 billion drams (about $ 130 million). The court of the Yerevan administrative district of Shengavit at the end of November 2016 declared bankrupt "Nairit Plant" CJSC on the basis of a lawsuit filed by the Electric Networks of Armenia company. Until the end of the 80s, the plant's products occupied 10-12% of the world market of synthetic rubber.