He Senate approved by a large majority the bill for former workers of House of Galicia, which had already been validated last week by the House of Representatives and represents a disbursement of nearly 30 million dollars.
The text of Wide Front was approved in the Parliament by 19 out of 20 votes thanks to the support of Town meeting, as well as two senators from National Party and one of Colorado Party. Now, it remains to know if the president Luis Lacalle Pou will decide to veto the initiative despite the claim of the former workers.
The thing is that the project that deputies and senators validated has a cost of close to 30 million dollars, when the project promoted by the Executive It proposed expenditures of 8 million dollars.
The proposal contemplates more than 1,000 people being laid off and considers that the payment of labor loans to former officials must be financed with the employer insolvency fund, with a limit of 105,000 indexed units, of around 611,000 pesos.
At the same time, the creation of a job bank is planned to which State Health Services Administration (Asse) and private health providers will have to go when they want to hire staff.
For Sergio Botana, “we must take responsibility”
After approval, the senator Sergio Botana (National Party) indicated that “there is no mystery here, we must take responsibility,” when justifying his vote in favor. Despite the possibility of a new presidential veto, he warned: “If the law is not followed, it will cost more.”
The nationalist also expressed himself in the opposite direction. Sebastian Da Silva, who considered that “there is a time outside the logical period to allocate expenses that were passed and it does not allow us to Constitution face those expenses.”
Finally, from the FA, the senator Daniel Caggiani stated that “it is a project that at least tries to put a stop to interpretations that have been given by the Executive power about laws that already exist and rights that are enshrined in the Constitution”, among which he spoke about “the workers’ debts and the possibility of reintegrating into some mutual societies that the members of House of Galicia”.
Source: Ambito
