Vojvodina workers to sue company

The Nezavisnost (Independence) trade union is to sue the Sombor-based Sunce sunflower oil manufacturer on behalf of 40 workers.

Izvor: B92

Friday, 09.11.2007.

16:19

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The Nezavisnost (Independence) trade union is to sue the Sombor-based Sunce sunflower oil manufacturer on behalf of 40 workers. Nezavisnost President Milan Miskin told B92 that the move was based on the decision to transfer workers of the company - whose majority shareholder is Invej’s Predrag Rankovic, aka. Peconi – to the Vital cooking oil factory in Vrbas, also owned by Invej. Vojvodina workers to sue company The workers in question come to work at the Vrbas factory every morning at 8 a.m., where, as they say, they do nothing because no-one has told them what their jobs are. At midday, they break for lunch,which lasts three hours, and then return to the factory, where they wait until 7 p.m., the end of their “working“ day. This is frustrating for the workers, especially those who live outside Sombor, as they leave for work at 5 a.m., and return home late at night. The trade union has decided to sue because the company headquarters have moved 50km away, and they have also had to take a pay cut. The union believes that the company is doing this deliberately in order to pressure the workers into resigning of their own free will, and thus absolve them from having to make severance payments to surplus staff. Miskin said the workers had no option but to agree to the move, as otherwise they would have been fired. “They sent contracts to those who had been transferred to the factory. In the contract it said that they were being sent to Vrbas in order to enhance Sunce’s production,“ he said. “Quite simply, if you don’t sign within eight days, you automatically imply that you wish to resign. Basically, they were forced into signing the agreement,“ Miskin complained. A B92 journalist attempted to get a response from the factory to the planned lawsuit, and was told to address Invej, the factory’s owner. The journalist spent two days at Invej trying to extract a response concerning the goings-on in Vrbas, however no-one he spoke to was authorised to comment, nor for that matter able to direct him to somebody who could.

Vojvodina workers to sue company

The workers in question come to work at the Vrbas factory every morning at 8 a.m., where, as they say, they do nothing because no-one has told them what their jobs are.

At midday, they break for lunch,which lasts three hours, and then return to the factory, where they wait until 7 p.m., the end of their “working“ day.

This is frustrating for the workers, especially those who live outside Sombor, as they leave for work at 5 a.m., and return home late at night.

The trade union has decided to sue because the company headquarters have moved 50km away, and they have also had to take a pay cut.

The union believes that the company is doing this deliberately in order to pressure the workers into resigning of their own free will, and thus absolve them from having to make severance payments to surplus staff.

Miškin said the workers had no option but to agree to the move, as otherwise they would have been fired. “They sent contracts to those who had been transferred to the factory. In the contract it said that they were being sent to Vrbas in order to enhance Sunce’s production,“ he said.

“Quite simply, if you don’t sign within eight days, you automatically imply that you wish to resign. Basically, they were forced into signing the agreement,“ Miškin complained.

A B92 journalist attempted to get a response from the factory to the planned lawsuit, and was told to address Invej, the factory’s owner.

The journalist spent two days at Invej trying to extract a response concerning the goings-on in Vrbas, however no-one he spoke to was authorised to comment, nor for that matter able to direct him to somebody who could.

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