PKP Cargo’s maintenance subsidiary PKP Cargotabor is reportedly losing employees without having to fire them. Employees “cannot stand the pressure” amid PKP’s financial trouble and are leaving the company on their own.
“The employees are nervous because they are learning about the layoffs from the media. It is not known how many people will be laid off and which plants will be closed”, Solidarity trade union chairman Andrzej Morel says. “In addition, there have been rumours that the payment of salaries for July is at risk, the money should be transferred to the employees’ accounts by 10 August.”
Earlier in August, PKP Cargotabor announced mass layoffs. Following in the footsteps of its parent company PKP Cargo, it filed for restructuring proceedings after the company got into financial trouble. PKP Cargotabor is suffering from PKP Cargo’s problems as the latter suspends orders with its subsidiary.
Lack of money leads to power cutoff
The unrest at PKP Cargotabor is not helped by an 8 August power cutoff in the majority of its plants. “In Dąbrowa Górnicza, the power was completely cut off. The hall is standing, even though work was going full steam ahead. In Tarnowskie Góry, on the other hand, due to the power outage, renovations were stopped in one of the two halls”, according to Morel.
“From the information that has reached us, it appears that almost all of the company’s plants are in the same situation. We suspect that PKP Cargo did not pay for the orders, so our management had no way to pay for the power. For us, the lack of power is synonymous with the lack of ability to earn money”, the Solidarity chairman adds.