ZAGREB, May 24 (Hina) - Split-based company Diokom will file for bankruptcy, undergo reorganisation, while its workers will receive two minimum salaries, Croatia's Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic said in Zagreb on Wednesday. The
salaries will be paid from a debt Diokom will collect from a company on Friday. Diokom's workers went on strike a month ago, demanding the payment of two backlog salaries, and that this once big company not file for bankruptcy. The deadline they set for the payment of the two salaries expires this Friday. Diokom was today discussed by temporary trustee Ivo Buric and its representatives, Minister Fizulic, Premier Ivica Racan and Deputy Premier Slavko Linic, and Split's mayor Ivica Skaric. Fizulic said the Defence Ministry and health insurance bureau on Monday paid 6.5 million kuna on Diokom's account, a sum sufficient for the payment of one an
ZAGREB, May 24 (Hina) - Split-based company Diokom will file for
bankruptcy, undergo reorganisation, while its workers will receive
two minimum salaries, Croatia's Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic
said in Zagreb on Wednesday.
The salaries will be paid from a debt Diokom will collect from a
company on Friday.
Diokom's workers went on strike a month ago, demanding the payment
of two backlog salaries, and that this once big company not file for
bankruptcy. The deadline they set for the payment of the two
salaries expires this Friday.
Diokom was today discussed by temporary trustee Ivo Buric and its
representatives, Minister Fizulic, Premier Ivica Racan and Deputy
Premier Slavko Linic, and Split's mayor Ivica Skaric.
Fizulic said the Defence Ministry and health insurance bureau on
Monday paid 6.5 million kuna on Diokom's account, a sum sufficient
for the payment of one and a half minimum salary. Seventy percent of
the salary was paid however because Diokom's managers were given
ministers' and premiers' salaries, he added.
The economy minister said this was the reason why "until temporary
trustee Ivo Buric takes over full authorities, salaries or social
assistance to Diokom will not be paid."
"This is evidently a criminal issue, so the finance and crime police
have been sent to Diokom," Fizulic said.
The minister said he believed the Split company would find its
future through reorganisation. "I deeply believe the great
majority of jobs can be saved, but not as it was done in the last ten
years, when somebody deliberately brought Diokom into dire
straits, presenting the government with the bill."
Resigning mayor Skaric said the government was trying to find a
solution, and that he believed it was possible if all worked
together. "Even though I don't have the authorities, with the best
intentions I warned Diokom's employees not to pay salaries to the
management, calling on them to let us resolve the problems
together," he said, urging all responsible parties in the company
to cooperate.
Skaric tendered his resignation because of the Diokom issue, with
the explanation that it was a moral act coming after his inability
to ensure assistance for the company with 2,400 employees.
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