The company's management attempted to appeal the verdict in the regional court.

As reported by 1prof.by, the Grodno Regional Organization of the Belarusian Trade Union of Workers in Trade, Consumer Cooperation, and Entrepreneurship helped a former employee of one of the local enterprises defend her rights. The union's lawyers achieved significant payments for her through the court for her health damaged at work.

Olga Kozey (name changed) worked as a baker for many years until serious health problems forced her to change her profession. A medical commission and an independent examination officially confirmed that the woman had a chronic occupational disease - bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis. The cause of the ailments was the harmful factors at the workplace.

The essence of the labor conflict:

The employer's violations: a special investigation proved that the company's management systematically violated sanitary and labor laws.

Loss of ability to work: the medico-rehabilitation expert commission (MREC) established that the worker had lost 10% of her professional ability to work.

Refusal to pay: according to the collective agreement, for each percentage point of lost health, the company was obliged to pay a benefit in the amount of one average monthly salary. However, the employer refused to voluntarily pay the money for 10 months.

As explained by labor law inspector Igor Vladimirovich Soroka, due to asthma, the woman faced constant shortness of breath, strong coughing, insomnia, and was forced to switch to lighter, but less paid work. For this reason, the lawsuit included demands not only for material assistance but also for compensation for moral harm.

The court of first instance fully sided with the plaintiff, obliging the organization to pay the former baker more than 9,600 rubles in material assistance and an additional 4,500 rubles for moral suffering. The company's management attempted to appeal the verdict in the regional court, shifting the blame to the "peculiarities of the woman's organism," but the higher authority left the verdict unchanged. The money has been fully paid to the victim.

The management of the company attempted to appeal the verdict in the regional court.