ZAGREB, June 14 (Hina) - In line with decisions made by commercial courts in Zagreb and Split, bankruptcy proceedings have been initiated in 'Nama' and 'Diokom' companies and everything is in the hands of those courts now, Deputy
Prime Minister Slavko Linic said during question time at the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Before the beginning of today's parliament session, members of the Croatian Association of Trade Unions (HUS) in Nama and Diokom distributed leaflets to MPs asking that politically motivated bankruptcy proceedings be stopped and that their companies be granted rehabilitation programmes. The unions of Nama and Diokom workers requested MPs to support economically justified rehabilitation programmes instead of politically motivated government decisions on bankruptcy proceedings. Rehabilitation programmes, HUS officials said, offer integral solutions to the problem, and secure wor
ZAGREB, June 14 (Hina) - In line with decisions made by commercial
courts in Zagreb and Split, bankruptcy proceedings have been
initiated in 'Nama' and 'Diokom' companies and everything is in the
hands of those courts now, Deputy Prime Minister Slavko Linic said
during question time at the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
Before the beginning of today's parliament session, members of the
Croatian Association of Trade Unions (HUS) in Nama and Diokom
distributed leaflets to MPs asking that politically motivated
bankruptcy proceedings be stopped and that their companies be
granted rehabilitation programmes.
The unions of Nama and Diokom workers requested MPs to support
economically justified rehabilitation programmes instead of
politically motivated government decisions on bankruptcy
proceedings. Rehabilitation programmes, HUS officials said, offer
integral solutions to the problem, and secure work for a part of
Nama and Diokom employees, while providing the others with
severance pays.
Dubravka Suica of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) asked what
the government intended to do in regard to that problem.
Linic said that in case of Nama and Diokom many persons responsible
for the bad situation in the two companies had caused numerous
misunderstandings. We tried to reach an agreement with the
creditors, but many of them did not accept the offered solutions,
Linic said, adding the stalling of bankruptcy proceedings, which
lasted several months, caused damage to the two companies and their
employees.
The Croatian Privatisation Fund (HFP) and other state institutions
will be very active in the bankruptcy proceedings and
reorganisation of the two companies so that their basic activity
could be preserved and the jobs of as many employees as possible
saved, Linic said. The government did not sign any agreements with
the unions or the companies' managements, he added.
Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic said the alleged agreement, which
HUS members this morning distributed to MPs together with their
leaflets, represented only the minutes from his meeting with HUS
representatives in early May. At that meeting, it was suggested
that the debt of 'Robot' company toward Diokom be used for the
payment of workers' wages. However, after 'Robot' paid the debt,
the money was used for the payment of managers' salaries. After
that, all further negotiations were meaningless, Fizulic said.
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