Over 200 people quit Brestproject

Employees of the institute Brestproject do not want to work for miserable salaries.

A recent bidding for the reconstruction of a sugar producing plant in Zhabinka was a bright illustration of the situation at the institution. The technological part of the project was assigned to a German company. Two institutes competed for the right to make the engineering project: Brestproject and its competitor from Kiev Ukrgiprosakhar. Considering the suggestion, a representative of the German partner told the Brest company that he was confused by the institute’s circulating assets. But his greater surprise was caused by the gap in the age range of the specialists, the Evening Brest reports.

The German asked the director of Brestproject Aleh Khrushch directly: “Why is the age variation of the staff is so weird? The main part is comprised of employees of 50 and more, and the other category is 22-35 years. Where are the “golden age” professionals of 35-50 years old?”

The German was not persuaded by the answer, and in the end the company from Brest lost the bidding, and the renovated plant will be projected by the company from Kiev, which has requested 2 times more for their services then the Belarusian counterparts.

For the past two years over 200 people quit Brestproject, and the other day the director received couple more requests not to prolong the contract. The first mass quitting of professionals happened right after the crisis came, when the leading professionals saw their salaries dropped from 1000 dollars to 400. In the course of 2011 97 people left the institute. In 2012 over 100 people quit. They have not managed to stop the tendency in 2013 either: having worked the necessary two years young specialists quit, so do the people, whose life has been linked with the institute for many years.

Photo by Mikalaj Chabierkus