Armavia takes its employees unawares
The former employees of recently bankrupted Armavia airline, who took to the streets today demanding their unpaid salaries, were unable to meet with the company's owner, Armenia-based businessman Mikhail Bagdasarov. Getting to the company's central office the protesters were met by security officers who closed the doors before them without any reasons.
The angered employees decided to go to the accounting department to receive a receipt of their salaries. Here they were taken aback to see their salaries were calculated four times less than the employee's hourly basic rate of pay.
If earlier the employees received AMD 4 500 for each hour worked, today it was AMD 1000.
The astonished employees tried to meet General Manager Norayr Beluyan to clarify the issue but the latter refused to receive them.
A group of Armavia's employees of are now sitting outside the company's central office in the hope to be received by Mikhail Bagdasarov.
Armenia's last national airline, Armavia, has ceased operations on April 1, 2013, over grave financial problems.
The Company served 48 destinations in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Armavia's bankruptcy leaves Armenia without a national air carrier, since the other state-owned carrier, Armenian Airlines, went bankrupt in 2003.
