Wages have not been paid at the Moldovan Railways for three months, and management says workload has decreased.
Representatives of the company Calea Ferată din Moldova say they are having financial problems because of the drop in the flow of goods, as usually happens in summer, but are trying to find solutions.
Currently, 70% of the company’s employees have collected their salaries for May, and they are now looking for money for June and July.
Wages at the Moldovan Railways depend on freight flows
“Since the Moldovan Railways is a state-owned enterprise, we depend on freight flows. It’s a seasonal thing that was the case last year and in previous years when the spring-summer transition period sees a drop in freight flow. We do not have the capacity to pay salaries on time and in full, which will be remedied by the end of this month, plus-minus,” said Dmitry Prohnitsky, Head of Commercial Service of the State Railway Enterprise of Moldova.
Currently, CFM has wage arrears of nearly 90 million Moldovan lei (equivalent to about 22.4 million Romanian lei) to its more than six thousand employees. Last July, Moldovan railway workers’ wages were increased by 89%. In absolute figures, the average monthly salary of CFM employees rose from 4,050 lei (equivalent to about 990 Romanian lei) to 8,469 lei (almost 2,100 Romanian lei).
In 2020 and 2021, CFM was on the verge of bankruptcy due to financial problems, and employees of the state-owned enterprise did not receive their salaries for even half a year.
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