The Cabildo calls "for calm" and assures that Adislan workers will be paid "in a few days"

Social Welfare has also announced that "in two or three months" the service for disability care will be put out to tender, which until now had been provided in an "irregular" manner.

May 19 2021 (06:07 WEST)
Isabel Martin, Minister of Social Welfare
Isabel Martin, Minister of Social Welfare

The Minister of Social Welfare of the Cabildo, Isabel Martín, has made a call "for calm" and has assured that the workers of Adislan will be paid "in a few days", after UGT denounced the non-payment of the last month's payroll to the workers, warning that "the care for dependent people will be compromised". Likewise, Martín has announced on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero that in "two or three months" the service for disability care will be put out to tender, which until now had been provided in an "irregular" manner.

In this regard, it should be recalled that in May 2020, the new government group of the Cabildo revealed that four "essential" services of the institution in the area of social care had been provided without a contract, with "verbal" awards made under the government of Pedro San Ginés. And one of them was the disability care service, which is managed by Adislan and in which, according to Martín, the Cabildo was "absent of control" for "more than 10 years".

"There are a series of rights that the Dependency Law gives to all day users of the center, who are not receiving the service in accordance with the Dependency Law, because the Cabildo, over many years, has not made all the corresponding revisions with respect to the regulations. As there is no contractual relationship, there are no series of items, of work, of hours of dedication to evaluate compliance with a series of regulations," he added.

All of this was put in the hands of the Consultative Council, from where it was communicated that the contract with Adislan would be "null". "There is no contractual relationship," insisted the Minister of Social Welfare, stating that this is why they are working to put the service out to tender.

"If I put a certain service out to tender and I have an entity that provides it, I have a series of services that I can control," he said. "This is very big, because Adislan receives 2.3 million euros from the Cabildo every year and that money should have been freely competed for a long time ago," he added.

However, in the midst of all this, "Intervention has detected that the invoices do not comply 100% with the regulations and has therefore stopped them" and therefore the workers have not been paid the last month's payroll. "Intervention has issued a report saying that there are invoices that do not fit, that there is another way to invoice, and that must carry a legal report that is not done in one day or two," said Isabel Martín, who however hopes that "in a few days" it will be resolved, ensuring that the legal solution will be because "everything is resolved until the tender" of the service.

"I am not going to say that the treatment towards disability is bad, on the contrary, because I know that the caregivers, who are also the ones who are suffering the most because they are the ones who are most in contact with the users, have an exquisite treatment, because that is what the relatives tell us," wanted to clarify the Minister of Social Welfare, who pointed out that the problem is that "the management is not what it should be of a public administration." "The summary for me of this situation is the lack of professional zeal and affection in a sector as vulnerable as this," she concluded.

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