Tanja Maraš was hired as a permanent employee in the state-owned company Plantaže on July 13 at the end of November this year in the position of cashier in the company. As "Vijesti" has learned unofficially, she is the wife of doctor Perica Maraš, a relative of Plantaž executive director Verica Maraš.
Tanja Maraš has a degree in economics and previously worked at Komercijalna banka Budva.
On Monday, "Vijesti" sent a question to the state-owned company regarding the new employment, but the answer did not arrive. "Vijesti" asked whether Tanja Maraš was employed at the end of November and whether it was nepotism. There are also questions as to why highly skilled masters in banking and graduate economists are assigned to vineyards (work units for viticulture and fruit growing where they have never worked before), and people from the outside are brought to responsible positions, and whether it is revanchism towards people who won court cases.
Some of the disgruntled workers, with whom "Vijesti" spoke in the past few days, suspect that the new case is the revenge of the executive director due to previously lost labor disputes, among which, precisely, employed economists.
"The fact that she employed so many relatives in Plantaže speaks of pure nepotism and the director's lack of concern for compliance with the law and public response. If Plantaže were owned by her, she probably wouldn't have employed so many relatives and friends because it wouldn't have paid for her," claimed one of the employees, who requested anonymity, for "Vijesti".
"Vijesti" announced a little over a month ago that more and more management functions in "Plantaže" are concentrated in the immediate family of the sales and marketing director of that company, Veselin Đurišić, who is also the main responsible person in the subsidiary company in Belgrade. His sister Vesna Đurišić Vujičić has been Plantaž's purchasing director for many years, and since October of this year her husband and Veselin's son-in-law Saša Vujičić has become director of Plantaž's quality sector.
When asked by "Vijesti", how Vujičić was chosen, whether there was a public advertisement or his recommendation was that he is the husband of Vesna Đurišić Vujičić and the son-in-law of Veselin Đurišić, the executive director Verica Maraš then answered that he was appointed as director of the quality sector "in a manner that is in accordance with the company's general acts" and the powers transferred to her by the board, which in its act, when entrusting the third mandate, expressly and unequivocally authorized the executive director to determine the management structure and administration of the company, as well as, in accordance with this authorization, choose the management team.
"Vijesti" announced in mid-September that the long-time director of general and legal affairs of Plantaž Stojanka Asanović was dismissed and Miroslav Vuković was appointed in her place. Vuković is a schoolmate of Đurišić, and they previously worked together in the Belgrade subsidiary of the company.
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