The most important crisis management task is guarding workplaces, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said during a visit to chemicals company BorsodChem on Thursday.
Mr Gyurcsany met with workers at the plant two days after the BorsodChem's management suspended plans to lay off 550 people. The company made the decision after reaching an agreement -- in principle -- with the government.
The new challenge will be to get development resources for investments that have already started at the company, Mr Gyurcsany said.
Mr Gyurcsany noted that BorsodChem had signalled its problems early on, allowing quick action, unlike steel company DAM, which announced on Monday it would lay off 878 people and shut down its plant.
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What was the deal with BorsodChem? Or is it top secret as if it came out, everybody would want the same treatment?
Gyurcsany is only interested in saving his own job. BorsodChem seems like a PR stunt, a photo-op with the few workers who haven't lost theirs yet.
I think it would be too early to call GY.F. the "savior". I have a few other names for him...