2024-06-13 12:20:29
Workers of Liberty, which has filed for chapter, can apply to the labor workplace for unpaid wages from Monday. Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL) stated this on Czech Tv on Thursday morning. In response to him, the Labor Workplace will strengthen the capacities on the department in Ostrava.
Jurečka stated that Liberty workers can request compensation for unpaid wages the day after the payday, which is that this Friday on the smelter. The employees of the labor workplace will attempt to course of the purposes in a matter of days, he added.
The metallurgical firm Liberty Ostrava, with which the Ostrava regional court docket began insolvency proceedings, has virtually 5 thousand workers. Nearly all of workers have been at residence since December. Till now, the corporate was shielded from collectors by a moratorium declared by the court docket, and the smelter was getting ready for preventive restructuring. However on Wednesday, Liberty introduced that it was withdrawing from preventive restructuring.
It could be superb to promote the Ostrava smelter as a complete
It’s a precedence for the Moravian-Silesian Area and town of Ostrava that the metallurgical firm Liberty Ostrava just isn’t offered in elements. Even within the occasion of termination of operation, the territory ought to stay built-in and ideally within the fingers of the state. It could be attainable to make use of it as a growth website. This was said by Governor Josef Bělica (ANO) and Mayor Jan Dohnal (Collectively). Each agree that for staff, the top of manufacturing would imply a drop in dwelling requirements. Nevertheless, they nonetheless hope that an investor might be discovered.
“For me, it’s a precedence that the corporate just isn’t offered in elements, as a result of for my part that might imply the top of built-in metal manufacturing in Northern Moravia. I would really like it to be offered as a complete. I do not assume it’s practical that they need to promote it earlier than earlier than it goes into insolvency. I feel it is a futile try by the present proprietor to keep away from insolvency and promote it earlier than that,” stated Bělica. On Thursday morning, the court docket began insolvency proceedings on the request of the corporate.
In response to the governor, the area doesn’t have the means to assist workers. “Sadly, the area has no powers to intervene or enter on this course,” the governor stated. He believes that it is going to be tough for workers to search out employment on the labor market.
“These persons are certified in metallurgy, and I’m afraid that the Moravian-Silesian Area just isn’t capable of soak up these folks with out their dwelling requirements falling and them having to enter unskilled professions. If an individual works in a smelter and is a specialist in metal casting, then one other expert job within the Moravian-Silesian area, or very exhausting to search out. I hope that an investor will probably be discovered, ideally a Czech one, who will save the manufacturing facility,” stated Bělica.
The mayor doesn’t take into account the present growth of the state of affairs to be shocking. “The state of affairs was comparatively unsolvable already within the preliminary levels. A managed insolvency course of is probably not utterly dangerous, whether it is attainable to discover a strategic companion who would purchase out the corporate in insolvency, then it may very well be good,” stated Dohnal.
An investor who will keep manufacturing and workers
The federal government’s aim can also be to search out an investor for the corporate Liberty Ostrava who will keep a part of the manufacturing and preserve a big a part of the staff on the smelter, Minister of Business and Commerce Jozef Síkela (STAN) stated on Thursday to the Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic. In response to him, the federal government is involved with such an investor, however in response to him, there may be nonetheless a protracted technique to go to achieve an settlement.
“To a sure extent, the method opens up new prospects. It opens up the potential of a brand new investor coming into the corporate, who may behave extra responsibly,” stated Síkela in regards to the initiation of insolvency. The state will assert its pursuits via a declare held by the state insurance coverage firm EGAP.