The former workers of House of Galicia They delivered a letter to the president Luis Luis Lacalle Pou in complaint for the non-approval of the bill that aimed to compensate doctors and non-doctors affected by the closure of the mutual insurance company for $32 million.
After the failure of the project Chamber of Deputies —for not obtaining the necessary quorum to vote on it, despite having been approved in the Senate-, The former workers brought their claim to the residence of Suarez and Reyes.
“We have a feeling of rage and helplessness. Than a Camera leave without a quorum so that a law is not voted on, it has not happened for many years. “It causes a lot of sadness,” he said. Flor Constanzo, part of the group of mutual workers, to Channel 10.
The law that failed to see the light raised the increase from 8 to 32 million dollars in terms of compensation to pay for the layoffs of more than 1,000 people from the institution’s medical and non-medical staff, who were left without work with the closure of Casa de Galicia.
“Of 1,200 non-technical workers, 495 are unemployed. We have not received our layoffs and we are waiting for what the Senate resolves. We gave a standing ovation to that bill, although we gave up 40% of our dismissal. However, we applaud it. Today We do not have anything”Constanzo commented.
Along with the increase in compensation, the bill—which did not have the support of the Colorado Party and most of the National Party- established that ASSE would take the former Casa de Galicia workers still unemployed. “Without law, we are still on the street,” said the affected former worker.
“We all lost,” said the Undersecretary of Health
For his part, the undersecretary of Public Health (MSP), José Luis Satdjiansaid that in the ministry there is “a feeling of emptiness” after the deputies’ refusal to vote on the law to compensate former Casa de Galicia workers.
“I think what happened these days is that we all lost,” he said at a press conference this Friday, adding that “there was a viable solution for a problem of a particular company, of workers.” “There was a project sent by the Executive power that had the previous majorities. It was a solution, perhaps it was not a complete solution or perhaps it was partial, but it was a viable solution, and today we have nothing. The feeling of emptiness is because of that truncated path that was traveled“, he claimed.
Regarding what will happen from now on, Satdjian recalled that “what was in the original law of February 2022 is foreseen, that there is a priority bag of workers for hiring, where the mutualists must make the consultation to incorporate. That is accomplished, it was known that it would be accomplished like this.”
Source: Ambito
