Ministry of energy of Ukraine is concerned about the crisis in the state coal mine "Krasnolimanskaya", in particular in connection with the presence of wage arrears and problematic relationship between the state enterprise and a private entity (JSC "Krasnolimanskaya"). About it announced in a press-service of the Ministry of energy of Ukraine.
"the Situation that occurred at the mine "Krasnolimanskaya" should be resolved as quickly as possible. The Ministry will take all measures to facilitate this. The main issues of debts on wages and reduced social tension in the team. The government has already taken a decision on priority use of domestic coal thermal generation. In addition, the state company "Centrenergo" will be the schedule of payments to the state mines. This will facilitate the repayment of debts which arose from the policies of the previous leadership generation company", - said acting Minister of energy Olga Buslovich.
She also said that soon will meet to resolve the matter with the head of the state-owned enterprises, and head of the company "Krasnolimanskaya", putting that on it, not the state, is coal mining.
According to the Ministry of energy, the debt on wages to employees of state mining enterprises has reached 848 million 400 thousand UAH. This is excluding the arrears of the mine "Krasnolimanskaya", where accumulated more than 570 million hryvnias total debt to employees.
"a Private industry problem becomes the accumulation of debts to the administrative apparatus of the mines, which in a sense become hostage to the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from 7.02.18 city Workers, from Directors to managers, have not been paid due to conditions they are not able to influence. That gets the industry - the loss of skilled personnel", - said the head of the Independent trade Union of miners of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets.
As earlier reported, Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal said it will initiate criminal proceedings concerning the delay of payment of workers of GP "Krasnolimanskaya".
OOO "Krasnolimanskaya", located on the territory of GP "Krasnolimanskaya", in December 2003, concluded with the Russian coal company "Krasnolimanskaya" a contract for the provision of productive services, which in June 2014 was extended until December 2032.
OOO "Concord Consulting" and acted as Advisor for the privatization of "Coal company "Krasnolimanskaya", at the end of last year, urged the leadership of the Ministry of environment and energy to change the leadership of state-owned enterprises, in particular, the acting Director of mines Sergey Pidika, which, in his opinion, blocks the process of preparing the mine for sale.
the CEO of Concorde Capital Igor Mazepa stated that the state mine in the last two years is not in the interests of the state, but solely to the private company associated with businessman Vitaly Kropachev, since March 2018, the state company "Krasnolimanskaya" is not producing coal, and all of his miners working on private Krasnolimanskiy, OOO.
