Former employees of SA Avicola-Nord threaten to take ‘unordinary measures’

About 15 former employees of the Falesti-based poultry breeding company SA Avicola-Nord demand that they be paid the overdue salaries and be reinstated in posts. Otherwise, they will resort to ‘unordinary measures’. They ask the authorities to intervene and solve the problems they face, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We only ask that our constitutional rights be respected,” said Ana Bordeniuc, former head of the company’s personnel division. “I was illegally dismissed over two years ago. Though we won the case and were reinstated in posts, our rights are not observed.” The former employees say their requests to implement the court decisions are ignored. They also say that accidentally or not, their case is examined by the same judges who are involved in the Plahotniuc-Mocanu case. According to Ana Bordeniuc, the company’s director was changed in 2008 under a court decision. Over 30 employees were fired for the reason that they had been absent from work for over four hours. “In reality, we were banned access to the head office that was sealed up, while the financial accounts were taken away,” she said. The company’s ex-executive director Ion Smurgun said Avicola-Nord turned from the most prosperous poultry breeder into a bankrupt company. “The salaries have not been paid for over five months, while the quality of the products has worsened,” Smurgun said. “They started to sell fowls of only eight months, but, according to the standards, they must be of at least one year and a half. The company works at a loss. Consequently, the fowls are fed not four times, but only once,” said former employee Viorica Smurgun. “We must get our children ready for school, but do not have money,” said Maria Sidorenco. “We will block access to the offices of the law enforcers together with our children. The previous Government did not deal with our problems. We want only to work and be paid.”