Minister of Labor Marian Jureka (KDU-SL) said on Monday that SSZ had sent arrears of social security contributions and called on the mining company to settle the arrears within eight days. Neither the minister nor the company specified the amount owed.
I can confirm that we have already paid the full payment to the social security, he stated today without any details of the claim. He added that wages will be paid in the usual way. The payment term in Liberty is ten working days per month. According to the information, the company’s expenditure on wages in the restructuring plan totaled 11.8 million euros, i.e. around 295 million crowns.
Ostravsk hu, which has been in trouble since December, is now wondering whether the court has approved its restructuring in full. For two, she said that the overwhelming majority of them fully approved, and on Friday she announced that she had taken further steps, which are necessary for the full advance of the restructuring. She stated that cooperation with the current energy supplier Tameh will continue. The supplier wants to take energy from others and from the new energy complex he will build. The company’s workforce is around 1,300.
Trba stated on Monday that during the full restructuring and financial stabilization of the company, payments may be delayed for a short period of time. Certain payments have been delayed due to requests for cash as we gradually try to ramp up production and get employees back to work. We will always try to make your payments, during the full restructuring period and the financial stabilization of the company, we will be able to meet the short-term arrears at certain moments, he said about the overdue payments.
According to Stanjura, it is not completely realistic
According to the Minister of Finance Zbyk Stanjura (ODS), there are concerns that the owner’s pledge to save the mine company Liberty Ostrava is not realistic. Labor Minister Jurek will prepare social assistance in case of need. eska one of the many steps with the European Commission. Stanjura said this on Tuesday at a press conference after one government. The ministers reminded that the company did not pay social security taxes in full and therefore did not comply with the payment calendar for the comparative balance of the Export Guarantee and Borrowing Company (EGAP)
“Unfortunately, our fears surfaced that the prices that Mr. (Sanjeev) Gupta gradually proposed as the owner were not realistic,” Stanjura said. He pointed to the company’s new information about how the coke plant was shut down and production resumed later. This itself violates the agreement that some people agreed to. We confirm that their fulls are not reliable. The promises they have gradually made are not true. That is not in sight, said the Minister of Finance.
According to Jurek, there is not much room to search for a joint venture with the company. There would be a different approach and a different way of looking at my work and forms of cooperation, if there was an owner here who was fully honest, realizable, and when he says something, it is also true. Here we see a comparison of own balances, duties, unfulfilled written accounts for less than half a year. It won’t go anywhere positive, said Jureka.
Stanjura added that, under the leadership of EGAP, he is now taking all possible steps to protect taxpayers’ money. He thus stated that Jureka and his team are preparing the necessary steps if help in the social area is also needed. The trick is to protect the employees and, if we can take such steps to save a substantial part of the production, the cash register.
The Minister of Finance pointed out that he owns steel mills in Hungary and Romania. He changed the suspicion that the hundred emission allowances from the eska ended up in the owner’s other conduits in Europe. According to Stanjura, the Minister of Industry Jozef Skela (STAN) applied to the European Commission for cooperation. If Mr. Gupta applies these very debatable business practices only in R or in other states as well, and if there would not be a reaction from the European Commission, which by the way gave approval for the acquisition of Liberty by Mr. Gupta, Stanjura said.
Even with subsidiary companies, Liberty Ostrava has 5,100 employees according to company data. In mid-April, the company stated that there are no more than 1,700 people at work. But now, according to the union, many of them are working. Liberty Ostrava has been in trouble ever since. I have had to pay my bills for a long time, and since December, when Tameh Czech stopped the energy supply, their operation has been at a standstill. Since then, half of the employees have been at home.
