Armenia AIDS prevention center ex-director sues health ministry

News.am, Armenia
Sept 6 2020

21:10, 06.09.2020
                          

Samvel Grigoryan, former Director of the Republican Center for AIDS Prevention of Armenia, wants to restore his violated labor rights in court. 168.am has learned about this from DataLex Judicial Information System.
The aforesaid center and the Ministry of Health are the respondents in this lawsuit.
Grigoryan demands to be reinstated in his abovementioned job and for the respondents to pay the amount of the forced outage.
On February 26, it became known that by the order of the minister of health, Samvel Grigoryan’s employment contract as director of the Center was terminated on the grounds of improper performance of duties.
Grigoryan, however, was on vacation at the time of his dismissal.
And the deputy minister of health had hurried to introduce the acting director the center's staff.
This new appointment by the health minister had caused dissatisfaction of the medical staff. In a conversation with the media, the staff of the AIDS prevention center had argued that all this was done without discussing it with them, and their professional opinions in this regard were ignored.