Wage Arrears 'Paid' to Sochi Olympic Workers | News | The Moscow Times
All arrears of wages paid to workers in the construction of an Olympic venue for 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, the Attorney General's Office said Friday, but denied that workers had been paid in full.
Construction workers raise housing in the valley who had publicly complained Imeretinskaya not be paid have received 6.3 million rubles ($ 215,000) after the prosecutor's office intervened and took the matter under "control special, "the prosecutor's office said in a statement posted on its website.
The statement accused a subcontractor, the company Solnechny Tuapse-Dom, for violating workers' rights.
Hundreds of workers hired by Tuapse-Solnechny Dom and the general contractor, the company Moskonverprom, began refusing to work on March 11, complaining of unpaid wages, poor food and poor working conditions.
The site is funded by the Crown corporation Olimpstroi.
Igor Pechorin, a worker hired directly by the general contractor, denied having received all his pay. "I received 21,000 rubles [$ 700] for the month of January," he said by telephone from Sochi.But the company owes me a total of 149,000 rubles, or $ 5,000.
The government plans to spend about $ 13 billion to build for the Games in Sochi.
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