OREANDA-NEWS. On May 06, 2009 Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko announced the Government has repaid the arrears of wages to the employees of the coal branch. The Head of Government informed during the Government’s session.

“Today we have achieved a zero showing in arrears of salaries,” Yulia Tymoshenko emphasized.
The Premier explained it happened even despite the fact that in connection with reduction of electrical energy consumption and industrial output of metal the use of coal has downed by 40%.

Yulia Tymoshenko also imparted debts in salaries to the miners existed even in 2007, in the times of economic boost when the Government was led by another team. “In the crisis we have managed to pay the salaries to the miners in full,” the Head of Government underlined.