The Bijelo Polje Pensioners' Association has contacted the relevant institutions to investigate the activities of the Pensioners' Movement, which announced yesterday that it would seek severance pay for former workers whose companies went bankrupt.
The Pensioners' Movement of Montenegro has announced a large protest in Bijelo Polje on November 10 at 12 noon, if the Law on the Exercise of the Right to Financial Support for Persons Who Were Employed in Companies in the Mining and Metal Industry Sector from Podgorica and Nikšić, which the Parliament adopted at the proposal of the Government, does not include former workers from the north.
The Bijelo Polje Pensioners' Association, in a statement, reminded the media that severance pay and other financial assistance to former workers can only be approved and paid by the competent ministries with the approval of the Government and Parliament of Montenegro, and that it is impossible to pay it in such a way.
They claim that the goal of the Pensioners' Movement is not the payment of severance pay, but rather the access of pensioners to their movement, which has a "negligible number" of members.
"We hereby appeal to the competent institutions of our state to investigate these activities of the Bijelo Polje Pensioners' Movement and point out their illegal and illegitimate work," the Bijelo Polje Pensioners' Association states.
The association calls on pensioners from Bijelo Polje to "not fall for the scams" offered to them by some non-governmental organizations when it comes to severance payments for pensioners who lost their jobs and worked in one of the companies that went bankrupt.
"We believe that this issue can only gain importance if the relevant ministry and the government of Montenegro make a decision on this, otherwise it is all a deception of pensioners. The main goal of this initiative is for pensioners from the Bijelo Polje Pensioners' Association to transfer to the Pensioners' Movement, which until now has not had its own membership or has a very small number of members," the association said.
Due to all of the above, the Bijelo Polje Pensioners' Association filed a report with the Bijelo Polje Security Department for Economic Crime, to review whether this non-governmental organization can engage in such activities according to its statute.
"Pensioners come to us to find out what the action is about, and many are outraged by the behavior of the non-governmental organization that initiated this action, because if a pensioner does not want to sign the application form for their association, they do not even allow him to sign up for the so-called financial support, and some pensioners do not even know what they have signed," state the Pensioners' Association of Bijelo Polje, concluding that the main goal of this action is for the NGO Movement of Pensioners to take as many pensioners as possible into its membership in this way from the Pensioners' Association of Bijelo Polje, because they cannot exist with the current number of members.
The Pensioners' Association of BIJELO POLJE asks the competent institutions to check the work of the Pensioners' Movement and whether their activities are in accordance with their statute, and to take the necessary legal measures.
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