Reader: If it were not for Charter’97, I would be still waiting for maternity benefit

The maternity benefit was paid to a worker of Strommashina joint stock company after her letter was published by the website.

In early February a reader of charter97.org website complained that maternity benefit for December was not paid for her. A mother of two children, a worker of Mahilyou-based enterprise Strommashina, found herself in a difficult financial situation, and her employer was to blame for that: she didn’t have money, and didn’t know when they were to be received, while all social services simply ping-ponged her, like dozens of other women on maternity leave.

We published the complaint of our reader, and the result was not slow to arrive: the money was transferred on the same day.

“My maternity benefit has been paid! Though it has been done two weeks later. Now I want to know how the situation will turn out in February… Nothing has been transferred still, and the plant does not have money. I check my card every day, though I do not have much hope. I am planning whom to address later. I think that if it were not for your website, I would be waiting for my January money for a long time!” she writes.

We remind that for the last few months many reports are received that enterprises are moved to four-day and three-day weeks, that wages are not paid completely, and that wages are reduced. Besides, some employees are forced to take unpaid leaves.

Besides, the presidium of the Belarusian Trade Union of industry has summed up the results of the work for the year 2014. In particular, it was said that the number of workers at industrial enterprises of Belarus fell by more than 10,000. The greatest number of workers was lost by such industrial giants as Atlant, MAZ, Minsk Motor Plant and Barysau-based plant Avtogidrousilitel. Audit was carried out in 173 enterprises, 1,184 violations of the labour legislation were detected. It was said by the chief labour inspector of the Belarusian Trade Union of Industrial Workers Ivan Tsypko.

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