Kiev Communard
17th August 2010, 21:03
Orthodox Oligarch Vasily Bojko-Veliky to His Subordinates - Get Married in the Church, or Get Fired!
A management order has been issued to the married workers of Russian Milk Company - until 14 October, i.e. the Protection of the Holy Mary Orthodox Christian holiday, they are obliged to celebrate their marriage anew in the Church.
The order refers to the baptised employees of the firm whom the management has obligated - besides the usual civil ceremony - to get married in the church. Otherwise the company will get rid of them.
The head of Russian Milk Company Vasily Bojko-Veliky has explained to the journalists of the Echo of Moscow Radio Station that he considers the abnormal heat which has engulfed the territory of Russia this summer to be a divine punishment for the sins of Russian people. And the wedding ceremony, according to the orthodox businessman, will help to alleviate a situation.
«For the baptised man to register his marriage in the registry office and to live unwed without the benefits of the clergy is an anomaly and abnormality. If the man promises to his spouse in the registry office to love her, to live with her together until death, to give birth together to children and to bring them up, the same vow he as the orthodox person should give before God either. It must be a norm», - the radio station quotes him as saying.
The businessman has added that all the married employees who will fail or won't want to get wed in the Church in time will have been dismissed by 14 October 2010 - a holiday of the Protection of the Holy Mary.
The Orthodox Oligarch
Vasily Bojko-Veliky heads the Your Financial Trustee holding which includes 30 companies, including Russian Milk which came into being on the basis of Russian Milk factory situated near Moscow).
The management order in question, entitled «the Address to Employees», is published on a web site of Orthodox «Russian Line» news agency.
Besides an obligatory ceremony of church wedding, "the Address" requires all employees to pass an examination in the obligatory course called «Foundations of Orthodox Culture».
It is mentioned in "the Address" that «all employees procuring or abetting the procurement of abortion are subject to dismissal via staff reduction».
«If a woman did abortion, she can be no longer the employee of our company. Abortion is a murder of the human being. We do not wish to work with murderers», Bojko-Veliky claims in the press interview.
According to the businessman, dismissals will not constitute an infringement of the Labour Code. «We will downsize the personnel positions these individuals currently hold work, rather than the employees themselves, and redistribute their duties among the remaining workers», he explained.
Just one more startling example of bigotry and far right traditionalism holding sway nowadays in "free Russia". It is interesting to note that this "pious business leader" is actually former criminal freed on the largest bail in post-Soviet Russian history, by the way.
A management order has been issued to the married workers of Russian Milk Company - until 14 October, i.e. the Protection of the Holy Mary Orthodox Christian holiday, they are obliged to celebrate their marriage anew in the Church.
The order refers to the baptised employees of the firm whom the management has obligated - besides the usual civil ceremony - to get married in the church. Otherwise the company will get rid of them.
The head of Russian Milk Company Vasily Bojko-Veliky has explained to the journalists of the Echo of Moscow Radio Station that he considers the abnormal heat which has engulfed the territory of Russia this summer to be a divine punishment for the sins of Russian people. And the wedding ceremony, according to the orthodox businessman, will help to alleviate a situation.
«For the baptised man to register his marriage in the registry office and to live unwed without the benefits of the clergy is an anomaly and abnormality. If the man promises to his spouse in the registry office to love her, to live with her together until death, to give birth together to children and to bring them up, the same vow he as the orthodox person should give before God either. It must be a norm», - the radio station quotes him as saying.
The businessman has added that all the married employees who will fail or won't want to get wed in the Church in time will have been dismissed by 14 October 2010 - a holiday of the Protection of the Holy Mary.
The Orthodox Oligarch
Vasily Bojko-Veliky heads the Your Financial Trustee holding which includes 30 companies, including Russian Milk which came into being on the basis of Russian Milk factory situated near Moscow).
The management order in question, entitled «the Address to Employees», is published on a web site of Orthodox «Russian Line» news agency.
Besides an obligatory ceremony of church wedding, "the Address" requires all employees to pass an examination in the obligatory course called «Foundations of Orthodox Culture».
It is mentioned in "the Address" that «all employees procuring or abetting the procurement of abortion are subject to dismissal via staff reduction».
«If a woman did abortion, she can be no longer the employee of our company. Abortion is a murder of the human being. We do not wish to work with murderers», Bojko-Veliky claims in the press interview.
According to the businessman, dismissals will not constitute an infringement of the Labour Code. «We will downsize the personnel positions these individuals currently hold work, rather than the employees themselves, and redistribute their duties among the remaining workers», he explained.
Just one more startling example of bigotry and far right traditionalism holding sway nowadays in "free Russia". It is interesting to note that this "pious business leader" is actually former criminal freed on the largest bail in post-Soviet Russian history, by the way.