Sellers From Rechytsa Pay For Their Work On Their Own

Sellers have been ordered to cover a huge short payment in a shop.

Torgservis in Rechytsa has 9 food stores, two usual shops, Children's World and three restaurants. Employees of the Yubileiny supermarket have decided to go into litigation with the management.

Short payment of Br22500 found out by an audit is the reason, the managing staff of the Yubileiny has divided the sum among employees, Belsat informs.

"Everything will be decided in the court. I've been entitled to cover Br700," Henadz Salakhutdzinau, guard in store No. 50, confesses.

Employees are afraid of talking to independent media. Nevertheless, they have filed a statement to the police. It is told that there have always been miserable short payments. But the new leadership of the Torgservis leveled liabilities of a Deputy Director and an ordinary seller.

Other stores of the Torgservis work under the same rules. A former employee Yulia now works at store No. 8, Neftyanikov Street. She has not been paid yet, but still has to cover the short payment.

"First I had to pay Br470, and my salary equaled only to Br70-80," she recalls.

She had not enough money to pay even for a nursery school. And when she was entitled to cover one more short payment, she tried to quit the job. In the personnel department she was told: give us Br400 and you will be free.

Our director and a chief accountant are taken to the district executive committee and given a lecture for accounts receivable. Therefore, the chief accountant and the director personally prohibit to fire people who have not repaid the debt", the personnel department of the Torgservis explains.

"I have addressed the protection of labour. I was told that the Torgservis was a bondage one could hardly be out of," Yulia says.

To make sellers pay for short payments and make them live at a minimum wage is practiced not only by Rechytsa stores.

"Sometimes these sums are really high and there were cases when "there was a need to take a bank loan to cover a short measure at once," human rights activist and lawyer Leanid Sudalenka testifies.

The human rights activist gives a piece of advice - to drag your heels and be not afraid of going to court.

"The court may take into account a financial state of an employee and reduce the amount requested by an employer by half", the human rights activist says.

Or even declare an employee not guilty.