YEREVAN. – Hundreds of employees of Nairit chemical rubber plant of Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, and who demand their unpaid salaries, on Friday assembled outside the Government building and they are demanding the promised response.

Several days ago, the government had promised the Nairit workers that a timetable would be prepared on the payment of these wages and this timetable would be presented to them by no later than Friday.

“People want clarity. We have taken this step clearly realizing that the government simply cannot pay this much lump sum money,” Nairit CJSC Press Secretary Anush Harutyunyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. She added that if they do not get an answer today, they will continue their daily protests.

The demonstrators are going to wait for the government’s response until 1pm, and if no answer is given, they will head toward the Office of the President.

As reported earlier, a total of 1,700 Nairit employees were formally discharged as of February 6. The eighteen months of unpaid wages of the employees of Nairit chemical rubber plant, which no longer operates, total Armenian drams equivalent to approximately $15 million. The workers had assembled outside the Government Building and the Office of the President numerous times and demanded a solution to their problems, but to no avail, so far.