ST. PETERSBURG, February 16 - RAPSI. The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg's Nevsky district cancelled the St. Petersburg-based Heineken Brewery's decision to fire two employees for taking part in the protest rallies, the prosecutor's office reported on its web site on Thursday.

The brewery's trade unions held a warning one-hour strike on November 10, 2011. On December 15 they held a 24-hour strike. The trade union required cancelling unlimited workday and an accounting period of one year which was illegitimate according to the strikes organizers. The trade unions also protested against the use of contract and agency labor. The plant's management reprimanded the employees who took part in the strikes.

Vitaly Morozov, Chairman of the brewery's primary trade union organization, and Sergei Kolegov, chairman of the primary trade union organization, Solidarnost, held a hunger strike against the brewery management actions from January 12 to January 16. Morozov, in particular, claimed to cancel reprimands.

The St. Petersburg state labor inspection ordered the brewery's management to remove disciplinary penalties against those brewery's employees who took part in the strikes in November and December. In its turn, the brewery's administration said it will challenge the order in the court.

Following the inspection the prosecutors office challenged the employer's illegal orders to fire two employees and submitted to enterprise's management a notion to remove the violations," the message of the prosecutor's office reads.

The brewery currently employs about 350 employees. There are two trade union organizations at the enterprise comprising a total of 45 people. Heineken Brewery is the largest and the most state of the art brewery of the Heineken concern in Russia.