Intersindical Canaria has rejected "the unjustified dismissals that have been taking place since last week at the Meliá Salinas Hotel in Costa Teguise, dismissals and suspension of contracts that the company intends to justify with the miserable pretext of the current health emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic".
In this regard, the union points out that "there is the added circumstance that Meliá proceeds to unilaterally suspend the contracts without any prior notice or communication to the legal representation of the workers, a procedure that it is obliged to carry out in any circumstance of production".
In addition, Intersindical Canaria states that "the hotel maintains a normal occupancy of clientele to date," a fact that it considers to affect the "bad faith" of the company "by using the health emergency to increase its profits with the added harmful effect of overloading activities on a lower number of available workers".
Intersindical Canaria points out that it has already requested an urgent meeting with the Company Committee of the tourist center from the management of Melía Salinas, in which this union has a majority, requiring it to suspend the dismissals that have occurred to date and what may be processed soon.
If not, the union points out that "in addition to resorting to the labor authority", it will not hesitate "to demand that the State Government exercise its prerogatives within its declaration of a State of Alarm so that, immediately, in this establishment and in any other, it suspends any unjustified dismissal, understanding that the company intends to monetize and profit economically from the current pandemic crisis".
