ENA interim manager does "charity work" at Samvel Karapetyan`s  expense: David Ghazinyan

ArmInfo.  The Armenian authorities, represented by the interim manager of Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC (ESA) Romanos Petrosyan, are trying to gain publicity at the expense of the company's owner, the arrested Samvel  Karapetyan, as stated by  former acting CEO of ENA David Dhazinyan at  a press conference on August 27,  when commenting on Petrosyan's  decision to pay additional bonuses to the company's employees using  the bonus fund for management. 

Earlier, Romanos Petrosny wrote on his Facebook page that the General  Directorate of ENA and the branch directors did not receive their  bonuses for July. As a result, the company's payroll fund saw  additional savings of about 20 million drams. "These funds, according  to a separate order from the temporary manager of ESA, will be  distributed proportionally among approximately 1,000 ENA employees  whose remuneration for July (salary + bonus) did not exceed 200,000  drams (including taxes) as additional bonuses. As a result, their  remuneration for this month will increase by another 10-15%. The  group includes hundreds of controllers, technicians, assemblers,  mechanics, workers, drivers and other specialists:  a total of 947  people," he wrote.

"When establishing the tariff, the Public Services Regulatory  Commission (PSRC) includes the payroll fund, which is a clearly  defined, specific figure. From 2015 to the present, ENA's owner  Samvel Karapetyan has allocated 11.6 billion drams more than the  salary fund established by the commission for ENA. That is, about 150  million drams more per month," Ghazinyan said today.

Otherwise, he explained, based on the salary fund established by the  PSRC, it would have been necessary to reduce employees or salaries by  about 1.5 - 1.8 billion drams per year.  "Let's assume that the owner  of the company is still paying these 150 million drams per month,  they have reduced this amount by 20 million drams, and are trying to  present it as an act of charity. Then, before doing all this,  wouldn't it be more moral to declare that these are the owner's  funds, and not  amounts from the salary fund," he emphasized. "The  owner has, and will always have an inalienable right to no longer  allocate his own funds. IN other words, he can decide: I don't want  to give 150 million a month anymore, stay within the established  salary fund. Samvel Karapetyan, in my opinion, does not do this for  several reasons: firstly, as a "statist", he does not punish  the  manager,  management, or commission. Secondly, in the event of a  decrease in the amount allocated from his own pocket, there must  be  cuts, and employees must be fired.

 And the employees will be cut from the professional team, and not  from those he brought in. Thirdly, in this case, EN will go into  complete collapse," David Ghazinyan said.  He pointed out that the  interim manager of ENA has already fired about 45-50 employees.   Also, many people have written letters of resignation, either under  pressure or  to avoid problems. "It may seem like 45-50 people out of  6,800 employees is not a significant number, but we are talking  mainly about the company's management team. I don't know how  appointments are made in their government - by party affiliation or  by connections, but we didn't have that. The managers had clear  functions, and if they failed to fulfill them, the officials simply  could not work," Ghazinyan noted. In his opinion, the government is  simply decapitating ENA  to get rid of people who do not share its  political views.