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As Edita Sirutienė, the company’s communications manager, explained, the salaries of VASA employees have not changed since 2016, that is, since the establishment of the company.
“The level of salaries was low, which made it difficult to retain existing employees and attract new ones.
For this reason, in August of this year the structure of the company was changed, flattening it and increasing the salaries, mainly of specialists, ”he said.
E. Sirutienė added that the current average (1,390 euros) corresponds to the salary level of other companies in the municipality of Vilnius.
According to Sodra, on September 14 the company had 53 employees, whose average salary paid in July was 2018.04 EUR “on paper” (about 1247.29 EUR “on hand”). The average salary of full-time employees in July was 1,675.70 euros on paper (1,053.19 euros available). Sodra has not yet released the August data.
It is publicly announced that in the second quarter of 2020, the average salary of the director of VASA, department heads and department heads was 3,352.91 euros “on paper” (about 2,029 euros “on hand”). E. Sirutienė stated that the third quarter median wages will be posted on the company’s website when the third quarter ends.
He also specified that 5.8 thousand. The “possible” salary of the director of VASA is 1 million euros on paper. “This does not mean that the candidate who has won the contest is guaranteed to receive such a reward,” said E. Sirutienė.
The party is a personal matter for the employees.
At the end of August, it was announced that Artūras Zuokas, a member of the Vilnius City Council and a candidate for the Seimas elections, had won the VASA directors’ contest. It proposes to liquidate the company, claiming that “this intermediary is unnecessary” and proposes to transfer its functions to the Vilnius County Waste Management Center.
This week a comment by A. Zuokas was published, criticizing the alleged partisanship of the VASA leadership and the high salaries.
“Almost the entire administration of VASA is affiliated with a political party, whose members or individuals associated with this party pay themselves much higher wages than they would pay in private work.
In July of this year. 14 d. The acting director of VASA increased the salary fund of the company by 395,000 euros by decision of Povilas Poderskis, sole director of the Administration of VMS. The salaries of employees have increased by around 40%, although this has not been made public, “said the politician.
Artūras Zuokas
A. Zuokas presented the documents received from VASA to Delfi, showing that the company’s cost estimate for 2020 has indeed changed. At the beginning of the year, the remuneration and remuneration of the members of the Board was set at 1,226,072.27 euros, which was subsequently increased to 1,621,072.27 euros.
E. Sirutienė emphasized that VASA’s overall budget has not changed since its approval earlier this year.
“A new company structure was approved in the middle of the year, which allowed some employees to leave the company and would have required compensation. That is why part of the company’s budget was transferred and reserved for the payroll.
Following the changes in the company structure, no employees left the company and there was no need to pay severance, so the reserved funds were not used. Furthermore, following the aforementioned change in company structure, total salary costs have been reduced by approximately 5%, ”he said.
VASA’s communications chief further said that the company’s employees have never been and will never be recruited on the basis of their affiliation with any political party.
“Any membership of VASA employees in political parties or other public organizations is a personal matter of the employees and the company does not collect such statistics on its employees. Similarly, salaries are determined by the general principles of the offices of the corporate structure. Therefore, we consider such a claim to be simply unfounded, “responded the criticism of A. Zuokas.
Contradict you
Vilnius Deputy Mayor Valdas Benkunskas commented that A. Zuokas basically contradicts himself.
Valdas Benkunskas
“I really don’t want to pour water on A. Zuokas’ election campaign mill, but otherwise it contradicts his false statements and conspiracy theories, that is, if something had already been promised and agreed, it probably would have been a mystical conservative and won A. Zuokas.
In this case, my understanding of what A. Zuokas is politically different is radically different. According to these statements, A. Zuokas understands this as placing his “own” positions. This was apparently a common practice during his time as mayor. It is a pity that this approach is adopted, but there is not much news, “he said.
V. Benkunskas added that his interest, as deputy mayor in charge of this field, is that the head of the company is as soon as possible, that he gives the necessary boost to this company and meets the expectations of the founder in the field of management system of waste.
“And the contest itself took place and, most likely, after A. Zuokas finally stopped procrastinating and retired, it will be re-directed by the municipal administration commission, which is not subordinate or influential to the political leadership. of the municipality, “he added.
Although A. Zuokas has already received permission to sign the employment contract from the director of VASA, he was slow to do so and explained that he wanted to discuss the future of the company with Mayor Remigijus Šimassis first. For his part, R. Šimašius stated that he would only speak to A. Zuokas when he signed the contract.
On Friday, September 18, the Vilnius City Municipality announced that it would announce a new tender to manage its controlled company Vilnius Waste System Administrator. For the capital city, the organization of this contest, selection and diffusion of advertisements cost more than 6.1 thousand. The organization of the new tender will also cost the same.
“We do not plan to change the requirements for candidates, and the proposed salary ranges will be reviewed and made public in the near future,” said Lina Koriznien Head, director of the Human Resources Management Division.
VASA was established in 2015 to ensure the efficient administration of the waste management system in the capital, to carry out the control of municipal waste management and to provide information to those who receive waste management services.
Arvydas Darulis is currently serving as a director of the company.
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