ArmInfo.The leader of the Bright Armenia parliamentary faction, Edmon Marukyan, sent a letter to the Chairman of the Public Services Settlement Commission (PSRC) Garegin Baghramyan with a request to conduct an investigation to find out the reasons and legality of staff and salary reductions at <Gazprom Armenia> CJSC. The MP announced this on his Facebook page.
In particular, in the letter, Marukyan wrote that according to the information he had provided, numerous employees (inspectors and others) of Gazprom Armenia CJSC were dismissed; in addition, the salaries of the company's personnel were reduced by 20%.
"It is unclear what is the reason for such large-scale staff and salary reductions, but it is clear that in the current difficult social conditions with the loss of jobs for these employees, the negative consequences will be borne first of all by their families, and then by the state," the letter says. At the same time, the leader of the "Bright Armenia" faction noted that the answer received from the head of the PSRC will also be published on his official Facebook page.
To recall, in June this year Hrant Tadevosyan, General Director of <Gazprom Armenia>, told reporters that he would have to dismiss about a thousand of his employees. According to him, about 800 inspectors and another 200 people from other units will have to be released from work, the absence of which will not threaten the security of the network. "We didn't do this for a year so as not to deprive people of their jobs, but now we can't keep them," the director of <Gazprom Armenia> added.
To note, in June of this year, at the PSRC meeting, new gas tariffs were established. In particular, they remained unchanged for the population (100 AMD per cubic meter for disadvantaged families, 139 - for the rest), while slightly increased for business. In addition, following the meeting, Gazprom was provided with an annual salary fund of 14.7 billion drams, instead of the requested 18.9 billion drams. <And this means we will have to cut people, > he said.
