The pensioners of the bauxite mine announced that they will ask the government to fulfill its promise and to adopt a new law on severance payments that would include their company, Kombinat aluminijuma (KAP), Prerada, Vačnica, Fabrika elektroda Piva (FEP), Montavar Metalac and part of the workers of ŠIK Javorka. Niksic.
The representative of Boksit pensioners, Radivoje Knežević, told "Vijesti" that Boksit pensioners, about 120 of them, are asking for an agreement on the amount of severance pay and that they be paid as soon as possible.
"We are all the same, there is no difference", said Knežević to all former workers who retired without severance pay.
He recalled that the former Minister of Economy Vladimir Kavarić was a guest on Nikšić Television in early September 2016, and said that Boksit pensioners will certainly receive severance pay.
"When Duško Marković took over the government, we sent him a letter and he told the Television of Montenegro in January that all pensioners will receive severance pay." I call on all the workers of Bauxite, KAP, Prerada Kovačnica, Metalac, FEP and part of the workers of ŠIK Javorka to resolve this together, because we are all in the same situation", said Knežević.
In July 2015, the Law on settlement of obligations towards KAP workers was adopted, but they were not paid the promised 5,45 million euros for severance pay. The Constitutional Court struck down that law.
A group of about 120 former Bauxite workers retired at the end of 2014, without severance pay. The severance payments that the miners demanded ranged from six to 13,5 thousand euros.
The bauxite mines were bought in October 2015 by Uniprom Metali, a businessman from Nikšić, Veselin Pejović.
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