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Next to the fence of the sanatorium, they placed dozens of candles and hung several protest posters with the inscriptions: “Where will they put the 400 unemployed?”, “Why are sanctions applied to the Lithuanian people?”. Do you have too many clients? “
Near the entrance there is a facility with wheelchairs for children who are cared for in the sanatorium. The posters with pictures of the children say: “These are our patients. Who will help them?
Žygimantas Gedvila / 15min photo / concentration of the staff of the sanatorium “Bielorrusia”
The sanitarium staff, taking into account the ban on gatherings, spun wheels around the sanitarium on several dozen cars and a funeral procession.
We are concerned about what we hear on the news, read on information portals. We don’t know what our tomorrow will be like, “said V. Šaruckis.
“The sanatorium staff organized a campaign to protect our workplaces. We are concerned about what we hear in the news, you read on information portals. We do not know what our tomorrow will be like,” Vladislav Šaruckis, president of the working committee, told reporters of the sanatorium and educator who works in the sanatorium.
Last week, the sanatorium made an appeal to the Presidency, the Government and the Seimas, asking the authorities to review the legality of the sanctions imposed by the EU on the sanatorium and to seek clarification on the future of the sanatorium.
The Seimas is considering amendments that would allow paying special benefits to employees who leave the sanatorium, but some sanitarium employees and opposition politicians question the effectiveness of such a decision.
“It just came to our attention then. We protested against the adoption of amendments to the current law,” said V. Šaruckis.
“We hope that our government will form a commission with representatives of our sanatorium and find the correct answers (…) We want our jobs to be preserved,” he added.
We want our jobs to be preserved, added V. Šaruckis.
Employees lack the sincerity of power
Inga BNS, 57, who works as a cosmetologist at the sanatorium, said she was skeptical about the help offered by the state, lacking sincerity.
“I am skeptical about state aid. It is not sincere,” said the hospital employee.
He said he wanted the jobs to be preserved and the sanatorium to function as it has now.
Žygimantas Gedvila / 15min photo / concentration of the staff of the sanatorium “Bielorrusia”
“We would like everything to stay, because another 400 people in Druskininkai out of work is terrible,” said the 57-year-old, adding that she is skeptical and lacks sincerity about the help offered by the state.
Gintautas Derilovas, who has been working at the sanatorium for nine years and hopes to keep his job, says it is impossible to find another job in Druskininkai for 400 people.
In Druskininkai? 400 people? Are you kidding? Neither industry nor anything. What is the treatment facility used for? I don’t understand what he’s doing, “said the 53-year-old man who oversees the sanitarium.
“In Druskininkai? 400 people? Are you kidding? Neither industry nor anything. What is the treatment facility used for? I don’t understand what he’s doing, “the 53-year-old man, who oversees the sanitarium territory, told BNS.
Physiotherapist Elena saw the protest of her colleagues with tears, told BNS that she would survive her retirement, but was worried about the rest of the sanitarium staff.
“I’m serious, I can live off retirement. But what will others do? Scary. First of all, it’s very ugly and yet it frees us from traitors. It’s not nice to treat people like that.” said an employee of the sanitarium.
“I shoot at your feet”
Arūnas Lekavičius, president of the Solidarumas union in southern Lithuania, says that the sanctions applied by the EU, which the sanitarium employees are currently suffering from, are not effective.
“In the opinion of the union, this is a shot at our feet, because we are sacrificing our employees … You know what unemployment is like in Druskininkai,” A. Lekavičius told reporters.
In the opinion of the union, this is a shot at our feet, because we are sacrificing our employees (…) You know what unemployment is like in Druskininkai, ”said A. Lekavičius.
He said he was asking for help not only from the Lithuanian authorities, but also from the Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlan Cichanouskaya in reviewing EU sanctions.
“The mood of the employees is bad and poor. People are in the unknown. With this campaign, we want to appeal to the President of Lithuania, members of Seimas, to review whether the sanctions applied will achieve the goal,” said the leader. union.
We also want to address the leader of the Belarusian opposition, S. Cichanouskaya. This sanatorium treats Belarusian children. Do you see what kind of patients are here? It would also be a request for her, as the leader of the opposition, to appeal together to the European Commission to review the sanctions, “he added.
Žygimantas Gedvila / 15min photo / concentration of the staff of the sanatorium “Bielorrusia”
According to representatives of the sanatorium, about 30 employees of the sanatorium live with their families in official apartments. If the sanitarium were closed, they would lose not only their jobs but also their homes.
The sanatorium staff may have been left without income when the institution’s Swedbank accounts were frozen in the EU following the imposition of sanctions on the Main Economic Council of the President of Belarus.
This board depends on the Board of Presidential Affairs of Belarus, which is the founder of a sanatorium that operates in Lithuania on the basis of a public institution.
Lithuania has applied an exception to pay the salaries of sanitarium employees, most of whom are Lithuanian citizens. As a result of the sanctions applied, almost 400 employees of the sanatorium were waiting for December.
The case of the Belarusian sanatorium is the first in the history of Lithuania, when international sanctions are applied to a company operating in the country.
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