News on the topic: labor rights
05.10.2007 Employers Are Fined for Refusal to Employ Immoral Parents
The state enterprises are unable to refuse from employing the parents whose children have been alienated. That’s why such people are employed as apprentices with the wages of 160 – 180 000 rubles ($74 – 84).
13.09.2007 Workers of Mahiliou Repairs Plant Sue the Authorities
The shareholders of Mahiliou repairs lodged a claim on the actions of the enterprise authorities and the regional officials to the commercial court.
11.09.2007 Supreme Court Rejects Suit of Initiators of Contract System Abolishment
The Supreme Court did not satisfy the suit of the initiative group of citizens who intended to collect signatures for abolishment of the contract system. The citizens asked the court to abolish the ruling of the Central Election Commission who refused to register them. The court confessed the groundlessness of the CEC refusal, but stated that the proposal to amend the labor legislation contradicted to the Belarusian legislation. As a result the CEC refusal to register the initiative group was left in force.
12.07.2007 Workers Can Come out to Streets
Workers of Minsk Ball-Bearing Works sent a group letter to the President’s Administration and the State Control Committee asking to check the works and expressing their readiness to street actions for defending their rights.
27.06.2007 CEC Refuses to Register Initiative Group for Amending Labor Legislation
The goal of the initiative group was to cancel the contract system through a national referendum.
