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We also have the latest example of a company that closed stores almost overnight and left workers on the streets. The Turkish bakery chain Simit Saraj, after three years of activity, put the key in all the facilities in Belgrade. He left behind unpaid salaries and 15.2 million of official debt, even though the company is blocked according to data from the National Bank of Serbia.
Just a month ago, the Home plus retail chain also put the key in the lock. The owner left more than 100 workers on the street, bars were closed overnight and the official blockade reached more than 50 million dinars. Overnight, several other companies disappeared and all were withdrawn from the market in much the same way; in short, workers simply lost their jobs without warning.
Both workers and consumers are stranded
It seems that the Home Plus company, which sells household items, worked as a “Swiss watch” until its closure. Stores in shopping malls and central locations in Serbia, workers united … regular wages. And all that at the same time. A month ago, the owner closed all the stores, and the workers and consumers who ordered the goods, paid for them and did not receive them, were left in the lurch.
According to data from the National Bank of Serbia (NBS), the company’s account has been blocked since October 30 and the total amount of the blockade is 55.3 million dinars.
According to information from “Blic Biznis”, Home plus also has debts with other companies with which it cooperated. These are companies from different fields that ask for tens of thousands of euros.
They escaped overnight
The information that the Russian company “Spilit” left Serbia and left some 500 workers without work in two factories in the south and north of Serbia resounded like a bomb.
A few days after the closure of the factories in Vranje and Sombor, as well as a total of 34 showrooms, there was no trace or voice of the director, and then owner Andrej Hodasevic announced.
It promised the payment of debts to the injured workers and clients, which it did, but did not resume activity and production. The owner later claimed that it was damaged by 200,000 euros, and that he would clarify with the workers who brought the merchandise to court.
About closing via Viber
The German fish canning and processing factory “Servfud” in Smederevo was closed with a padlock in November 2018, just two years after the opening of the plant in Serbia. A dozen workers protested in front of the closed gate, asking for an explanation because, according to what they said, they were informed through the viber group that the company was closed.
No one had approached them before and no one had answered the phones of their former superiors. Although the hiring of up to 300 workers was announced at the beginning of the work, the German company hired about 60 workers in two and a half years, and 25 of them met an unfortunate end.
The key of 90 goldsmiths
In 2013, the Croatian company “Gold Exchange”, which deals with the purchase of gold, literally shut down all 90 Serbian goldsmiths overnight, leaving 180 employees without the last two salaries and contributions. All the goldsmiths closed on September 12 of that year, less than a year after they started working.
Interestingly, the “gold swap” previously shut down goldsmiths in Bosnia and Herzegovina to no avail according to the same scenario, and also left workers without wages or contributions. Branches in Sarajevo, Zenica and Tuzla were closed in the middle of the night. The owners of this company were Croatian citizens Kristijan Kopić and Gordan Skočilić.
Kopic, which had a 99 percent stake in gold in Serbia, got into trouble in our country after the Precious Metals and Measures Directorate ruled that the company does not meet the conditions to obtain a trademark from a producer of goods made with precious metals.
The workers were notified of the dismissal by email
The Bulgarian chain of mobile phones, equipment and household appliances “Handy” also closed its stores throughout Serbia, all in one day, a total of about 200 installations. He informed about 900 workers about the layoffs by email.
“Handy” arrived in Serbia on March 5, 2007, and on June 1, 2018, workers received an email telling them that they no longer had a job, while a notice was posted on the company’s website: ” Dear clients, associates and friends, after 10 years of business in Serbia, we inform you that HENDI-TEL will cease operations. We would like to thank you for decades of trust, cooperation and support. “
After the news that the famous mobile phone chain suddenly failed in Serbia, it emerged that the Bulgarian workers had suffered the same fate in March 2018.
Leonardo
“Leonardo”, the plant of an Italian factory for the production of footwear, came to light half a year ago when some 60 workers accidentally discovered that they were no longer employed, after a worker asked for medical help. Wages were already behind and the debts to them were mounting.
However, the Subotica factory restarted production and 33 workers returned to work.
Istvan Hudji, president of the Subotica Federation of Independent Trade Unions, recently told “Blic” that the employer still delivered on everything it promised. All back wages were paid to workers, the only remaining severance pay payment to workers who did not return to work.
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