SOCAR to ensure employment of workers laid off from various plants
Rovnag Abdullayev, SOCAR President, has signed a decree to ensure employment of the workers laid off from various SOCAR’s plants.
According to the decree, the commission led by Eldar Orujev, chief of SOCAR’s Legal Department, has been created to implement the program. The commission will
- Set up Oilmen’s Club in line with the corporate standard Charity, Social Sponsor Assistance
- Control work of the company’s plants within the framework of the program;
Work out the estimate cost of the executive organization;
- To ensure that participants of the program are a part of the voluntary medical insurance of SOCAR;
- Take measures to employ workers laid off from the contractor and sub-contractor companies;
SOCAR Vice Presidents Halik Mammadov and Suleyman Gasymov have been instructed to supervise the program implementation.
Since early 2014 SOCAR has started reforming its subdivisions. Several thousands of employees have lost their jobs. SOCAR has made a decision on social protection of these employees.—0--
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