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Three-day ultimatum for AEI El Salvador to reinstate dismissed worker
Published: 2 September 2010
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San Salvador. The Ministry of Labour gave an ultimatum to the management of DELSUR, subsidiary of the transnational Ashmore Energy International AEI to reinstate José Alberto Vázquez, worker and representative of the Union of the Electricity Industry of El Salvador, SIES, who had been dismissed arbitrarily and with no just cause for having exercised his right to protest against the repressive and anti union attitude triggered by that multinational against unionised workers. Roberto Miguel Gonzalez, General Manager of DELSUR, tenaciously refused to hold a meeting with authorities of the Ministry of Labour; Einar José Gerardo Nuila Novoa, Manager of Human Resources of DELSUR, with the aim to defend the transnational’s interests, manifested his uneasiness to the Inspector from the Direction of Inspections, asserting that the management disagrees with the resolution, which in his opinion does not adjust to the current legislation, and in the case of the suspensions, he maintained that neither in the Labour code nor the Collective Agreement contains any regulations in the terms established by that Ministry. However, the Inspector, in exercise of her authority, read the minutes which establishes a term of three days for the DELSUR administration to reinstate the worker José Roberto Vázquez, and proceed to the payment of back wages and other benefits; at the same time she ordered the immediate payment of the unpaid wages to five workers who had been suspended without just cause. Apart from this, and according to article 17 N0 2 of Convention 81 of the International Labour Organisation, the Direction of Inspections recommended the immediate creation of a Labour Relations Committee, prescribed by clause 14 of the current Collective Agreement. Source: Union of the Electricity Industry of El Salvador, SIES misindicato@sies.org Contact: fernando.mcmaster@uniglobalunion.org |
