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"District consumers society handed seller over to new employer as bondservant"

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"District consumers society handed seller over to new employer as bondservant"
LEANID SUDALENKA AND MARIA SIVUKHA (RIGHT) IN THE REGIONAL COURT

A young mother from Rechytsa is fighting a district consumers society.

Homel regional court cancelled the ruling of Rechytsa district court, which limited the possibility to consider the legality of "automatic" transfer of a trade union member Maria Sivukha from one trade company to another, as Homelskaya Viasna writes.

A cycle of lawsuits of a young mother, Maria Sivukha, a seller, has been going on for almost eight months. She signed a fixed-term employment contract with Rechytsa's district consumers society, but was transferred together with her shop to another trade company. At the same time, Maria did not sign an employment contract with the new employer, which did not prevent him from making the young seller responsible for a large shortage of goods.

Leanid Sudalenka, the legal inspector of the REP Trade Union, comments on the situation:

- We are satisfied with the verdict of the regional court. The last obstacle to consideration of the case has been removed. The district court rejected our complaint twice and we appealed against these actions to the regional court twice. Our position in this case is that if there was no employment contract and no agreement on material responsibility, there can be no material responsibility, and thus Maria Sivukha should be completely exempted from paying the shortfall. And we will defend this position and the rights of our trade union member to the end.

Andrei Stryzhak, a member of the REP Trade Union Council, also commented on the loud case:

- The district consumers society is steadily holding the leading position in our rating of labor rights violators. We have repeatedly sued them for our union members, but this case stunts us by the fact that a person was transferred from one company's balance sheet to another as a refrigerator or a canned food box or as a bonded peasant. Maria Sivukha de jure did not have an employment relationship with the new employer, so she should not pay him anything.

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