The workers of the Borea plantthey are claiming layoff allowances and presented a lawsuitHe who climbed to the Legislative Palace, where they will have a meeting, in the context of a Uruguayan cannabis industry who is going through bad times.
The hemp company had a curious, and at the same time outrageous, way of firing its workers: via whatsapp with an image where the proof of withdrawal from the Social Welfare Bank (BPS). From then on, the company did not communicate with its workers again, not even to send a dismissal telegram.
As confirmed by the newspaper El País, through the leader of the Union of Rural and Agroindustrial Workers of Uruguay (Utrau), Juan Carlos Albano, This Wednesday they will have a meeting in the legislative Palace to agree on a subsidy because, in the next few days, four of the workers will run out of unemployment insurance.
In this sense, the workers also carried out a lawsuit that was delayed by the fair, but they assured from Interior Coordination who are already in contact with the workers to begin the investigation.
In coordination with the investigation, and after a meeting held by the workers with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS)a court order was requested that claims to see the data of those responsible for the company through the BPS since, being a public limited company, those responsible cannot be accessed.
On the other hand, the workers also requested meetings with Executive Tower, he Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) and with the Canadian embassy in Uruguay.
A strong retraction in the industry
The Chamber of Medicinal Cannabis Companies (Cecam) warned last week a “strong industry retraction” in Uruguay due to “regulatory restrictions” that prevent the development of the cannabis sector.
The Cecam denounced the difficult moment that the national medical cannabis industry is going through despite the fact that at a global level “all projections point to a growth of the global market for the cannabis industry with very encouraging rates in all the items that comprise it: medicinal, food market, supplements, cosmetics and industrial, with very varied options”.
According to the president of the Chamber, Ricardo Paez, the speed of development and the realization of expectations in all these areas depend on the way legislation advances in each country, the Legal issues They are the ones that stand as obstacles for the national sector.
On the other hand, it also complicates the inexistence of a global homogeneous market with respect to regulation, a situation that “conditions the commercial horizon” of Uruguayan companies, especially for those companies that focused on hemp production, without being clear about the final destination of their crops. In this regard, he reported that planted areas fell by 80% between the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 seasons.
Source: Ambito
