Nelli Babayan, the ‘Aravot’
The people working for High Toxicity Workshop at Armenian Nuclear Power Plant should have received pensions under privileged conditions; nevertheless, they will receive an ordinary citizen’s pension after the amendments made in the law.
With one light hand gesture, through voting, the deputies have deprived them of the opportunity for normal living, as Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant High Toxicity Workshop employees say.
The matter is that still in 2003 the National Assembly adopted a law which repealed privileged pensions for Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant High Toxicity Workshop employees. In the Soviet period their one working year was calculated as one year six months, so they used to receive their pensions based on these calculations.
November 24, 2011 at 16:59