Tag: bechtel
Economy 18.04.23 | 21:12

Kovacevski fullly endorses Bechtel’s demand for a 60 hour work week

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski now fully supports changing the labur laws so that the work week is extended to 60 hours – instead of the current limit put at 40 hours. The request was made by the US Bechtel company which was recently given a huge no-bid contract by Kovacevski and his deputy...
Macedonia 13.04.23 | 19:05

Bizarre: In support of the Bechtel deal, the Government came up with an estimate of the cost of a traffic fatality

One of the most bizarre moments in the Bechtel highway contract briefing that was organized by the Government yesterday was when one of the managers running the contract came up with an estimate of a death of a commuter. Darko Spirovski, representative of the controversial IRD consortium that was hired...
Macedonia 13.04.23 | 17:55

Kovacevski: The Bechtel contract will not be published

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski said that the highway contract his deputy Artan Grubi negotiated with Bechtel is not classified as secret but never the less, it will not be published. It has a level of confidentiality. It can’t be classified as secret, and is not classified as such, but it has...
Macedonia 13.04.23 | 15:06

Bechtel project: Even owners of unlawfully built houses will be able to seek damages

Changes to the law on expropriation, that are being pushed to facilitate the Bechtel highway contract, would make it possible for owners of illegally built homes to seek damages if their houses are seized. According to VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski, this will make it very profitable...
Macedonia 13.04.23 | 13:26

Pendarovski on the Bechtel project: Corruption happens when the local authorities are open to it

Discussing the controversial Bechtel highway project, President Stevo Pendarovski acknowledged that some of the projects of this company were followed by corruption allegations, but said that it is the fault of the countries it operated in, and their politicians. Pendarovski said that it is possible...
Macedonia 12.04.23 | 20:10

SDSM party contradicts Grubi, say they will publish the Bechtel contract in full

SDSM spokesman Darko Kaevski contradicted Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi and said that the Bechtel contract will be published and the press and the public will be allowed to inspect its 400 pages to see there is nothing suspicious in it. Kaevski spoke hours after Grubi said that the contract is classified....
Macedonia 12.04.23 | 19:03

VMRO-DPMNE: The Bechtel contract is not classified

There is no provision for corporate secrecy in the law on classified information, said the VMRO-DPMNE party after Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi insisted that he won’t publish the highway contract with Bechtel. The contract that Artan Grubi is hiding is not classified. Grubi should inform the...
Macedonia 12.04.23 | 17:59

Grubi won’t publish the Bechtel contract, says he will import workers if locals are not willing to work 60 hour weeks

During a press briefing on the growing problems surrounding the Bechtel highway contract, First Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi said that workers won’t be forced to work on the project – this after revelations that the Government bound itself to amend the labour law and to extend the 40...
Macedonia 12.04.23 | 14:33

Macedonia will have to pay damages to Bechtel if the 60 hour work week is not instituted in 10 days

According to VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski, the contract with the US construction giant Bechtel is made in such way that it would almost guarantee that Macedonia has to pay damages of over 50 million USD linked to the labour relations law. Bechtel demands a change to the law that would...
Macedonia 12.04.23 | 09:21

Lefkov: The public needs to see the contract that is signed with Bechtel

VMRO-DPMNE representative Mile Lefkov called on the Government to inform the public about the details of the highway contract it signed with Bechtel, as every day brings new revelations. Lefkov said that VMRO members of Parliament walked out as a number of amendments required by Bechtel were discussed...
Economy 11.04.23 | 17:28

Mickoski: The Government knowingly took an impossible obligation and will open the budget to paying large damages

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that Dimitar Kovacevski and Artan Grubi will have to be held responsible for their handling of the contract and these obligations they undertook without consulting Parliament first. From what we can see in the contract, if we don’t amend the law on labour...
Macedonia 11.04.23 | 16:26

Macedonia has to decimate its worker protection laws, or pay huge damages to Bechtel

As the Parliament debates a set of amendments meant to facilitate the work of the American Bechtel company on a large highway project, VMRO-DPMNE revealed a clause in the contract that would allow the company to collect over 50 million USD in damages if the amendments are not adopted. Specifically, Bechtel...
Macedonia 11.04.23 | 10:42

Nikoloski: This Government can’t build the Bechtel highways

Although the idea of building new highways is good, the Government of Artan Grubi and Dimitar Kovacevski won’t build any of the planned projects, said VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski, discussing the planned construction of several new highways with the help of the American company...
Culture 10.04.23 | 20:36

The Bechtel highway may damage the unique treasures of the Ohrid region

A section of the corridor highways, that are supposed to be built by the American Bechtel company, goes through  protected areas of Ohrid, writes Nova Makedonija. The paper reports that this could further complicate the project, for which the US company is pushing for extensive changes to the Macedonian...
Macedonia 10.04.23 | 15:41

President Pendarovski may veto some of the “Bechtel laws”

President Stevo Pendarovski warned that he may veto some of the so-called “Bechtel laws” – if they affect human rights. One of the amendments that are proposed to facilitate the work of the US company would allow the company to have its workers work longer than allowed per week, with...
Macedonia 10.04.23 | 13:40

Parliament begins the adoption of most “Bechtel laws”, except the one that would have allowed destruction of archeological sites

In the Parliament today, members of the ruling majority narrowly managed to begin the procedure of adopting the so-called “Bechtel laws” – a set of amendments meant to facilitate the construction of several highways by the US company. After protests from archeologists, the majority...
Economy 09.04.23 | 09:01

Union warns that Bechtel will be allowed to overwork its employees

The SSM association of unions strongly criticized the proposals for new laws that are proposed in an urgent procedure before the Parliament, to facilitate the large Bechtel highway project. One of the laws would allow the company to ask for more than 8 hours of overtime per week from its workers and...
Culture 08.04.23 | 19:15

Archaeologists will protest against the threat the Bechtel project presents for ancient sites

The Macedonian Archaeological Association will protest on Monday against the planned set of “Bechtel laws”, meant to facilitate the no-bid contract for construction of highways along the east-west corridor. Among various financial perks and exemptions, the laws provide that, if during the...
Macedonia 06.04.23 | 12:19

Artan Grubi named coordinator of the Bechtel highway project

The Government formally appointed First Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi as the lead coordinator for the construction of the planned new highways, that will be built by the US company Bechtel. Grubi already led the negotiations with Bechtel, and allegedly profited handsomely from the process. The country...
Macedonia 05.04.23 | 15:33

Ahmeti celebrated the Bechtel deal with a cigarette

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti celebrated the signing of a huge highway contract with the American company Bechtel by posting aa picture of himself smoking a cigarette. The 1.3 billion USD deal was negotiated largely by DUI and Ahmeti’s right hand man Artan Grubi. The notoriously corrupt party held an event...
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