The Island Union of Workers' Commissions in Lanzarote has denounced a “clear violation of rights” of workers by the new company that has been awarded the security and surveillance service of the Tourist Centers, Prosegur. “It has left fifteen workers to their fate, without subrogation, without a dismissal letter and without compensation”, the union assures.
In addition, it criticizes that after contacting both the company and the management of the Centers, both parties “wash their hands” and “no one takes responsibility for this situation that the people who should be subrogated are suffering”. And CCOO emphasizes that the statute of workers and the applicable collective agreement establish that the new company had to take charge of all the staff that had been providing the service.
“We are perfectly clear that these fifteen workers provide services for a security company and not directly for the Tourist Centers, but we are also clear that the Tourist Centers and two security companies, both SH Seguridad and Prosegur Seguridad, are responsible for the events; one part as directly responsible and the other as subsidiarily responsible for the service, so we do not accept the excuses and the clear abandonment that the workers are suffering”, he warns.
For this reason, he anticipates that they are already taking “all the judicial measures that this situation requires”, although in parallel they wanted to make their complaint public. “We want to make it clear that not everything is valid and that the Cabildo and the management of the Tourist Centers have not lived up to the circumstances and therefore we hope that they will take sides for the rights of the workers, who are being violated by a total business abuse that leads to job destruction”, they point out in a statement signed by the general secretary of CCOO in Lanzarote, Vanessa Frahija, who concludes by pointing out that they hope that “this situation will be redirected” and a solution will be given to these people.
