YEREVAN. – Armenian capital city Yerevan’s Nairit chemical [rubber] plant employees, who have been laid off for four years now and demand their unpaid salaries for the past fifteen months, gathered in front of Nairit on Thursday morning.  

Six of them went to the Presidential Palace to receive the reply to the letter they had submitted on Wednesday. 

They were handed the letter’s initial reply according to which, as Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisyan had promised them on Wednesday, the plant workers will be paid one month’s salary on February 19 and 20.     

But it is still unclear as to when they will be paid for the remaining fourteen months, and this matter is discussed. 

The Nairit employees were said nothing also concerning the chances of reopening the plant and its future fate, solely noting that respective negotiations are underway.

“We will wait for February 20. If they don’t give us a clear answer and a debt repayment timetable by then, the workers will stand up again [just as on Wednesday] on the 21st of the month,” Nairit employee Arayik Kareyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

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