Trepca Telekom at risk of salaries of about 5 thousand workers

About five thousand employees of Telekom, Post and Trepca may be left without salaries this month, or their salaries will be executed late. The reason for this is the blocking of Telekom and Trepca's accounts because of their debts.

Telekom Workers' Union Chairman Lamih Balaj has told Gazeta Express that if the accounts are not opened within these two days, then except that workers' salaries are endangered, the operation of the entire company is also at stake.

As long as the accounts are blocked, not only are the workers' salaries endangered, but the operation of the entire company because they can leave equipment without supplies. It all depends on the tools, so we connect first. The salaries of 3 thousand of the 500 employees of Telekom and Post are at risk and seriously jeopardised by all” services, Balaj said.

From this union, they don't even rule out protests if there are delays in salaries. According to Balaj, if there is no unblocking of the accounts, they are willing to appear in protest within an hour.

Everything is ready, operational is operational, strike group I strikes and protests are ready. If there's not going to be a record unlockment, then we're willing to go on protest within an hour, but once we're waiting for the” decision, Balaj has declared for Express.

Besides Telekom, the accounts have also been blocked by the public company “Trepca”.

The mission of chief of this company, Hysen Vrajolli, has spoken of the reason for blocking accounts.

We don't know the exact borgin because we haven't gotten it from the bank yet, but our accounts are blocked for failing to fulfill certain obligations to the suppliers and we can't do these payments until we sell the concentration next week”, Vrajolli stated.

Even at this company there may be pay delays, since Vrajolli says the solution cannot be found until next week.

According to him, if there will be such delays, then the situation could continue in this company.

There may be delays in wages, and until next week there is no solution. There's about 1350 workers who can be delayed wages, now we're in the process because we always sell the concentration next month. Salaries we usually give by 7 or 8 every month at 10th, but if this date passes, then the situation gets past. I've informed the government in time, but they've taken nothing. Let's see now, some is going to be”, Vrajolli said about Express.

Otherwise, after blocking accounts at Telekom, the union has demanded that the company's board be dismissed.

This is not the first time this company has been blocked as a result of its debt to Z-Mobile.