Beocin, Dec. 04, 2002 - Vladimir Petricevic got drunk the day he was promoted to workplace safety manager at the massive Beocin cement plant.
The sale of Beocin, the Yugoslav republic's biggest and oldest cement factory, to French giant Lafarge earlier this year is being closely watched as a key test of the reformist government's pro-West economic strategies.
But of the 964 Beocin workers who lost their jobs when Lafarge took over the plant near Novi Sad, northern Serbia, in April, all but one left voluntarily with payouts amounting to three years' salary, Lafarge executives said.
Feeds |
Contact