HSE chairman Blaž Košorok has stressed that this will be impossible to pull off without reaching an agreement with all the other stakeholders: "It is impossible to preserve the energy location and the social security of all 160 people. It's a physical impossibility."

"It is important to maintain their social security, though," Košorok said in Ljubljana after the meeting of Tet's supervisory bodies, which voted the power plant into liquidation. Liquidator Luka Podjed will draw up a redundancy plan within 30 days – in close cooperation with all key stakeholders, including the union and the works council.

First liquidation in energy sector
"It is paramount that the company strives to and will meet its obligation to its employees," the HSE chairman was quoted as saying, adding, "This is one of the first such liquidations in the Slovenian energy sector without a special legal framework."

The Trbovlje municipality has warned that the liquidation is another social bomb for the Zasavje region, maintaining that this calls for a social program that would specify what would happen to the employees and how they could be redeployed. Tet employees and the municipality want to find a solution for all 160 employees, adding that it is crucial to preserve the Zasavje energy location if they are to find a short-term solution to the problem. They issued a statement saying, "This liquidation is another social bomb for the region. It was agreed at the session that this question will be debated in parliament before any such worst-case scenario occurs." They added that they want to preserve the Tet energy location because the plant had a permit valid until 2020.

T. H., S. B. L. , G. C.; translated by D. V.