Workers of “New Energy” Request Their Salaries

Employees of the construction company “New Energy” request their salaries. They have not received their salaries for three months already. According to them, their salary was 1, 60 GEL per hour.

“I have been working since January and I have not taken even a tetri yet. Are not there any laws working in this country? We want our salaries.”

“They promise to pay the salaries one day, but then they do not pay. The next day they say something different. What should we wait for? I cannot tell you my name; I do not want to lose my job though it is not a perfect one.”

The workers state that they protested against that several times and that the administration had promised to cover their arrears in several days; though have not kept their promise yet.

“The building company belongs to Vano Merabishvili (Minister of Internal Affairs). In general, workers are afraid of him. It is our government’s character to make poor people work and not to pay their salaries. If they protest against it, the government will leave them without salaries,” said the head of Adjara office of the People’s Party, Jumber Tavartkiladze.

If their problems are not solved, the workers of “New Energy” plan to start protest rallies. Working on the news we could not get comments from the company representatives as they do not answer phone calls.

Maka Malakmadze, Adjara