News on the topic: labor rights
09.04.2014 Belaruskali pensioners ready for protests
Pensioners of Belaruskali company want better conditions for elderly people.
09.04.2014 Workers from Bangladesh cheated in Baranavichy
As we've learned, the workers from Bangladesh, who worked as weavers for a few months at Baranavichy cotton production company, are sent home.
27.03.2014 Stop discrimination!
The Belarusian Independent Trade Union has issued a statement in support of workers of the Babruisk-based plant of tractor parts and units who on March 25 announced a three-day warning hunger strike.
13.03.2014 Mahiliou: woman with two minor children is evicted from dormitory
The appropriate verdict was taken on March 12 by the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou.
08.02.2014 Aliaksandr Sakharuk regularly deprived of wage bonuses for membership in independent trade union
Crane operator of the 5th grade Aliaksandr, who works in the Office of mechanization No. 127 of Building Trust No. 8 in Brest, is strugglng for his accession to the collective agreement.
31.01.2014 Homel court turns down human rights defender’s claim against employer
The Court of Homel’s Chyhunachny district turned down a claim by local human rights defender Anatol Paplauny, who was dismissed from work, despite alleged violations of labor rights found by the State Labor Inspectorate. A decision, which has not yet entered into force, was announced on January 29 by judge Vital Kozyrau.
15.01.2014 Mass resignation of nursery school teachers in Hrodna
Salaries of nursery school teachers dropped to 2 million rubles (about $208). Former nursery schools earlier owned by Azot enterprise will be financed from the municipal budget starting 2014. Nursery school teachers began to file resignation letters, RFE/RL reports.
20.12.2013 UN Committee: Belarus should abolish forced labour
Belarus should abolish compulsory labour and ensure adequate protection of workers. This, among other important recommendations, was put forward by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) following its review of Belarus in November 2013.
17.12.2013 Mazyr trade union activist faces dismissal
Pavel Nazdra, an activist of the REP independent trade union’s office in Mazyr, has received threats of dismissal after his employer learned that the activist was elected leader of the Trade Union’s group in April 2013.
10.12.2013 FIDH and "Viasna" present the report "Forced Labor and the Pervasive Violation of Workers’ Rights in Belarus" on the Human Rights Day
Belarus authorities use of every means possible to feed the country’s economy to the detriment of its citizens’ economic and social rights. Internationally publicized as the «last European socialist paradise», Belarus forces large portions of its population to work, sometimes without pay and especially without the possibility to protest harsh or unfair conditions. These are the main observations of a report published today by FIDH and HRC Viasna.
09.12.2013 Dismissed activist of the independent trade union to receive 1 million rubles as a compensation
Luninets District Court partially granted the claim of Leanid Dubanosau who was fired from the enterprise in Mikashevichy.
09.12.2013 Information for journalists
On International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2013, a presentation of the alternative report of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Human Rights Center "Viasna” "Forced Labour and Pervasive Violations of Workers' Rights in Belarus" will take place in Minsk.
05.12.2013 Case of the Free Trade Union in Babruisk started anew
Babruisk Court again considers the case on payment of bonuses for the industrial achievements to members of the Belarusian Free Trade Union at the Tractor Parts and Assemblies Plant.
05.11.2013 Clear-up of members of Free Tarde Union going on at the Tractor Parts and Assemblies Plant
The labor contract wasn't extended for fitter Dzmitry Sakalouski, who has worked at the plant for 11 years. He is convinced that the cause for it is his membership in the Free Trade Union of Belarus.
15.10.2013 Hunger strike at Mazyr refinery: new methods of pressure from Deputy Director General, former head of local KGB department?
Two leaders of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union’s office at the Mazyr-based refinery have been on hunger strike at their workplace since October 14. The hunger strike was started by Yury Shvets and later joined by his deputy, Vasil Alkhouski. The latter decided to support the protest, despite being on sick leave after he broke his leg.
