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Last Updated: Jul 15, 2008 - 11:19:40 AM |
She was speaking after leading officials and journalists on snap
inspections of a building site in the capital city’s Manastirski Livadi
neighbourhood near Bulgaria Boulevard and of a pizzeria.
The inspections were part of a “mass check-up” that has started
throughout Bulgaria, the Labour and Social Policy Ministry said.
The ministry ordered that work be suspended at the building site after
the snap inspection found that workers lacked safety equipment, that
two workers were under-age, and that two out of eight workers did not
have employment contracts or national insurance. Stairs lacked railings
and the cargo lift was unsafe, according to a statement on the website
of Maslarova’s ministry.
The ministry said that the building site had been selected randomly
after workers on the top floor of the building were seen not wearing
safety helmets.
At the pizzeria, in Sofia’s Buxton Street, Maslarova said that there
were discrepancies between the payments recorded in employees’ labour
contracts and the actual amounts that they got.
General Labour Inspectorate officials questioned pizzeria employees
about their working hours and checked that equipment used in preparing
food met required standards.
Maslarova said that the fine for deliberately inaccurate declarations
of salaries was from 1500 to 5000 leva.
Planned amendments to the Labour Code would allow the ministry to shut
down companies that lied about salary payments. Maslarova said that
military sites where civilians are employed would also be inspected.
According to a report by Bulgarian news website mediapool.bg, the chief
secretary of the labour inspectorate, Rumyana Mihailova, said that the
Defence Ministry had requested information about all sites in the
country where munitions were stored.
This is a sequel to the July 3 series of explosions at the Chelopechene
munitions dump outside Sofia. After the Chelopechene blasts, involving
ageing weaponry detonating and causing serious damage to surrounding
property, it emerged that the site was guarded by two retired people.
Mihailova said that after official data had been received, all military
sites where civilians were employed would be checked, with specific
attention to occupational safety, working hours and pay.
Source:Ocnus.net 2008
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