The Ministry of Economy will talk with the representatives of the aluminum plant union and define the conditions of the social program for those workers who, in the process of bankruptcy, after the takeover of the factory by the Nikšić company Uniprom, lose their jobs.
After the final proposal of the social program is defined, the Ministry of Economy will send it to the Government for consideration, it was announced yesterday to "Vijesti" from this government department.
The aluminum trade union in KAP led by Rade Krivokapić asked the Minister of Economy Vladimir Kavarić the day before yesterday to make a statement on severance pay and the future of redundant workers before Uniprom takes over KAP.
The workers demand that a social program be provided for all employees, more precisely all 720, and that the amounts of severance pay must be significantly higher than those that have been distributed so far, because now the employees will go to the Labor Bureau, and not to pension.
The Ministry of Economy reiterated yesterday, however, that KAP workers who lose their jobs will be paid in accordance with the social programs that have been paid so far in this collective, Ironworks and Bauxite Mines.
A few years ago, the government provided severance pay in the amount of 6.000 to 15.000 euros for redundant workers in KAP, Bauxite and Željezara.
Veselin Pejović's Uniprom should soon take over the property of KAP for 28 million euros.
"We cannot know what the number of workers will be until the bidder submits the final list and announces the decision on the work of Elektroliza. When it comes to former KAP workers who took early retirement last year, it was previously announced that the payment of severance pay will depend from the agreement within the KAP trade union," explained the Ministry of Economy.
Veselin Pejović's Uniprom should soon take over the property of KAP for 28 million euros.
That company undertook to continue production in Elektroliza and retain around 38 of the 300 workers if it receives a favorable electricity price from Elektroprivreda of 720 euros per megawatt hour with transmission costs.
Otherwise, Uniprom will deal only with the processing of aluminum, which it will import and retain only about 150 workers in that variant.
EPCG currently does not want to approve a new contract with KAP on the supply of electricity at the desired price because the foreign partner A2A does not want the price to be below 45 euros. The final decision may be made at the upcoming regular meeting of EPCG shareholders on June 27.
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