News on the topic: labor rights
14.04.2009 Oppositionist Leanid Autukhou is not employed because of his political views
The head of a district organization of the BPF Party Leanid Autukhou has already spent more than a year trying to get employed with the aid of the social employment center in Haradok.
09.04.2009 Political activist Aliaksei Aleksandrovich can’t find a job
The activist of the For Freedom movement and the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Aliaksei Aleksandrovich can’t find a job in the town of Chashniki, where he lives.
01.04.2009 Workers of ‘Mastoudreu’ plant are threatened with dismissal for meetings with oppositionist
The headmaster of the largest enterprise of Masty district ‘Mastoudreu’ Siarhei Asosau threatened the workers that he would dismiss the department where if he saw there the activist of For Freedom movement, deputy of Masty district soviet of deputies Dzmitry Kukhlei there.
05.03.2009 Government legalizes mass dismissals of workers
The ministry of labor and social welfare is authorized to set criterions of mass release of workers.
11.02.2009 Activist of ‘For Freedom’ movement is threatened with being directed to work in radioactively polluted region
Aleh Pronski, graduate of Hrodna Agricultural University, is threatened with forced reassignment to Homel oblast. According to the activist, it is the revenge of the authorities for his activism and being a member of For Freedom movement.
10.02.2009 Hantsavichy: Ales Zanko has been released from jail
While being examined by a medical commission concerning his fitness for work, Ales Zanko had to apply for help to the oblast department of health care. The vice-headmaster of Hantsavichy district hospital Yauhen Nestsiarchuk took revenge on Zanko for it. He applied to the police with the statement that Mr. Zanko insulted him with foul language. In addition, he got the head of Hantsavichy house economy refuse to employ Ales Zanko. As a result, instead of getting a job Ales was imprisoned for 10 days. When Radio Racyja asked judge Uladzimir Kosmach why the punishment was so severe, the latter refused from commenting on it and said only that he issued the verdict with the account of the delinquent’s personality. Bear in mind that Ales Zanko is the son of a well-known opposition activist Mikalai Zanko.
03.02.2009 Hunger-strike in Hantsavichy
A resident of Hantsavichy Alexander Zanka has been sentenced to ten days of arrest for having allegedly insulted the headmaster of the local polyclinics Vasil Nestsiarovich and has gone on a hunger-strike under arrest.
03.02.2009 Homel: police detain participants of action against political dismissals
On 3 February in Homel the police detained three activists of Young Front and of the organizing committee the Belarusian Christian Democracy party.
02.02.2009 Minsk: authorities increase rent for entrepreneurs of “Manetka” shopping center
The administration of Minsk shopping center refused to prolong the rent agreement with an entrepreneur Halina Babitskaya. Babitskaya associates it with a recent article by Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorussii.
13.01.2009 Fired ex-candidate to parliament can’t get his workbook
Ex-candidate to the Chamber of Representatives, locksmith Ryhor Hryk has been fired from Baranavichy cotton alliance. He is admitted neither to the workshop where he used to work, nor to the administration offices.
12.01.2009 'Naftan': Belarusian authorities continue violating rights of independent trade unions
After Polimir Company joined Naftan oil refinery, the Independent Trade Union applied for re-registration.
08.12.2008 State saves money at the expense of medics’ wages
Medical professionals of one of the out-patient hospitals in Kobryn left working places protesting against cancelled advance of salary.
04.12.2008 Financial crisis touches personnel of ‘Atlant’ refrigerator plant
The workers of Atlant have to have unpaid vacations for three weeks. According to the workers, the administration explains it with the financial crisis.
11.11.2008 Siarhei Skrabets is denied employment at Minsk Automobile Plant for political reasons
The former member of the house of representatives and opposition politician Siarhei Skrabets can’t find a job. Another attempt to apply for a job of a foreman in a foundry shop of the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ) was unsuccessful. Though there is a vacancy here, Skrabets was denied the job.
04.11.2008 Mass dactiloscopy in Masty
All workers of state enterprises in Masty have to give their finger- and palm prints. Police officers refer to an order of the head of the police department to take fingerprints from all males aged 30-55.
