Employers in Belarus allow to dismiss workers for calls for strikes that are not related to labor disputes. To adopt the appropriate changes to the legislation is planned in the near future, the Deputy Secretary of State of the Security Council of the Republic of Alexander Rakhmanov said, TASS reports.
On the air of the television channel “Belarus-1” Rachmanov pointed to the common “theme of the so-called illegal strikes”, despite the fact that “in the case of the events of the second half of 2020, there was no question of any labor dispute.” “Measures were taken to break the teams to suspend or stop the work of the enterprise,” he said.
In this regard, it is proposed to introduce “additional grounds for terminating the contract on the initiative of the employer with people who are engaged in such destructive activities,” Rakhmanov explained.
Protests continue in Belarus after the presidential election on August 9, 2020, according to the official results of which Alexander Lukashenko received 80 percent of the votes. Protesters require the resignation of the country’s leadership, new and honest presidential elections, punishment of violence in violence against demonstrators. Shares of disagreement with the results are strictly suppressed by law enforcement agencies.