(plasteurope) -- As the second month of 2012 gets underway, there are no signs of any real improvement in the dire situation in Rimnicu Vilcea, as petrochemical group Oltchim (Rimnicu Vilcea / Romania) continues to send both its own workers as well as employees of subsidiary Petrochemical Arges into ⌠technical unemployment.
By now a mantra, group CEO Constantin Roibu continues to blame a lack of both feedstocks and capital for the measures.
A small glimmer of hope may be the fact that the measures so far had applied to about 1,000 employees, while this latest round ⌠only affects 840 workers, who have been sent home but continue to receive 80% of their wages.
MRC