Same compensation for all

PSD (Social Democrat Party) leaders on Monday decided that all those laid off by the large companies in Brasov and Hunedoara would get the same number of salaries as severance pay, “no matter where they are, who they are or how aggressive they are,” Public Administration minister Octav Cozmanca said. Cozmanca specified the Labour Ministry was still hosting talks between its representatives and those of the Finance Ministry, the Privatisation Authority (APAPS) and of the Roman, Tractorul, Rulmentul, Siderurgica, Aro Campulung and Electroputere Craiova unions. An agreement is supposed to be reached until today. “We believe all the necessary conditions to work this crisis out have been met; the steps will be the same for all those laid off and we will not give anybody a different treatment,” Cozmanca explained. He added that as soon as the agreement was closed, the first two salaries of the compensation would start being paid on Thursday and Friday, with the rest scheduled for payment on a monthly basis. ZF