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Fiadynich: Issue Of Mass Lay-Offs Is To Toughen By Autumn

Fiadynich: Issue Of Mass Lay-Offs Is To Toughen By Autumn

Belarusian enterprises have been actively laying off workers for seven month.

According to official statistics, only in May organizations said goodbye to 62.5 thousand people, and hired – by 19.4 thousand less. Chairman of the independent trade union of radio-electronic industry Henadz Fiadynich predicted to Salidarnasts, whether the situation was going to improve in the Belarusian labor market in the near future.

– Now companies are trying to get rid of people by all means. In-demand professionals such as assembly workers are left, and the staff who performs assisting functions is dismissed or transferred to part-time, – the trade union leader said.

According to the independent trade union, the most catastrophic situation, associated with layoffs, is observed today in small regional towns.

– Especially in towns where there are large industrial companies. For example, Barysau, Baranavichy, Vorsha, – Henadz Fiadynich said. – People, who have been fired there, are trying to find work abroad: in Poland, Lithuania, Russia. Some of them get a job in dubious construction firms, where they are “documented” without any warranty. A person can work for three months, and to get the money only for a month, because he has been stiffed.

Raising the retirement age, the government announced plans to create 50 thousand new jobs. Henadz Fiadynich noted that they “will be only on paper, because the economy is not working.” Lay offs, in his opinion, on the contrary, will continue:

– This will continue because some companies now employ 15 thousand people, and they need only 5. And until they achieve this balance, they will lay off more people than hire. The potential here is still high, so the layoffs that are happening today are only the beginning. I think by the fall this issue will have toughen even more.

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