About Twenty Citizens Waiting for Salaries

 Lado Bichashvili, Shida Kartli

About twenty employees of the building company have been unsuccessfully waiting for their salaries for four years already. They have even appealed to the court. The city court fully satisfied collective suit of the employees and ordered the building company to cover salary arrears but as a result of the court judgment, the company paid only 200 lari to each employee while the salary arrears for each employee varied between 1200 and 1500 lari.

Malkhaz Lomsadze: “About twenty employees of the security service were sacked in 2009 without paying our salaries of several months. The court judgment was not executed. We applied to the Enforcement Bureau but they said the company had 20 million lari debt to the state budget and they had to initially cover that debt and than our salaries. The company pays one million lari to the budget per year so we have to wait for twenty years for our salaries? Is it fair?”

Teimuraz Jincharadze: “The court ordered the company to pay our salaries but we have not received anything yet. They say the company’s property is sequestered, that they have some problems with the Tax Inspection and cannot pay our debts. The company representatives have stopped answering our phone calls for several months already. Last year, before elections they gave 200 lari to us but some of them have to get 1 200 lari and some – 1300 lari.”

The company’s lawyer Aleksandre Shalutashvili said the immovable property and bank accounts of the GeNako are sequestered: “Immovable property was inspected and put on auction. The company has huge debt to the state budget and cannot pay it. As for the salary arrears of the employees, the company will pay it only after it covers the debt to the state budget,” the lawyer told humanrights.ge.