According to an ancient unwritten rule, the last show of the theater season for actors and technicians means the end of the obligation to come to work. However, in Šabac Theatre It's not like that.
The last performance was played on June 6. It was her guest play "Oleana" starring Branislav Lečić and whose arrival she decided theater director Aleksandra Delic without consulting the Arts Council or anyone who decides about the theater. We wrote about that, as well as her other violations, for which most employees alert the authorities.
Whether because of that, or because the ensemble supported the students against her will, or simply to prove to them that she respects the law, Director Delić ordered the employees in the technical sector to come to work even though the theater season is over. Every day at 9 a.m. until the end of working hours. Even though they have nothing to do. Because according to the law, their annual vacation starts only on July 1.
Actors are exempt from this obligation, even though their vacation starts on July 1. Probably because he is not preparing a single new play for the next season.
No one thinks of blaming the director Alerksandra Delić for obeying the law. But what is a makeup artist to do when there is no one to do makeup? Or props? A decorator? Sorting out the things they work with for the next season takes a few hours at most, they would do it without being ordered. What should they do until July 1?
They say they come every day and do nothing. They are just present. They asked her why she was making them come. "Because I feel like it," she is said to have replied.
The trade union "Nezavisnost" of the Šabac Theater believes that the insistence that employees spend time in the employer's premises without clear and meaningful work tasks is an example of the "empty desk syndrome", which is recognized as a clear form of employee abuse.
It is not clear to them how Director Delić does not see that this will increase the resistance of the employees towards her and their need to leave the Šabac Theater.
