Comisiones Obreras has denounced that the SH Seguridad staff is in a "desperate situation," since the workers have not received their salaries "for the last two months" and do not know "what is going to happen to them."
This situation has occurred, according to the union, after the company lost "most of the services it was providing" on the island. "SH has only the services of the Hotel Sandos Papagayo, the Deiland Shopping Center and the Acuda Service, a service that acts when alarms go off from individuals or businesses that have contracted this service," they specify from the union. In addition, the company has also lost the services of the Molina Orosa Hospital and the Health Centers, although the staff that covered that service was subrogated to the new concessionaire.
CCOO points out that on April 29, the legal representation of the workers who remained on the company's staff met with the head of SH Seguridad, who at all times conveyed to these workers "a message of tranquility." "The company stated at this meeting that it was going to pay the salaries owed and that it was going to continue its activity normally," they point out from the union.
At that meeting, according to CCOO, the company's managers explained that the economic problems that SH was going through "were due to a debt of around 52,000 euros that the Arrecife City Council had with the company." In addition, he assured that the capital city council "would pay the debt the following week and immediately SH would settle the salaries owed to its staff." However, the union criticizes that, far from that happening, the workers "are still not paid."
In addition, the company kept at that time "8 workers on staff," but four of them were fired on May 9. "The company argued that it was bankrupt," they say from CCOO, which states that the workers do not understand that 15 days ago "the company did not explain the reality to them and deceived them again," just as they do not understand "how the services that the company still maintains are going to be carried out without personnel."
"These workers state that they feel deceived and unprotected, finding themselves in an unsustainable situation, where some of them owe the rent of their house due to the impossibility of taking charge of it and other receipts by not receiving their salaries," they say from the union.
Comisiones Obreras points out that its Legal Service has already begun the legal procedures "for the defense of the workers who have requested its services." In addition, it also reports that this company "is already denounced before the Labor Inspectorate, not only for non-payment of salaries, but for bonuses that have not been contributed to Social Security."
