Vice Chairman of the Union: New KEK manager is not expecting us at the meeting

“has changed management communication to union. She's totally ignorant. Ten days ago we requested an appointment with the manager. He has written and told us that we will meet on January 18th and not before, as our demands are urgent because we have a lot of workers dying because of professional diseases that they take over at work and for them there must be something”, Llumnica said.

He stated that they are not even being respected for their rights to the Labour Law.

The legal rights derived from the Labour Law are not respected. What we expect in the private sector when a country's most powerful public enterprise does not respect the legitimate rights stemming from the Labour Law”, he has said.

In the meantime, at the organised protest today, KEK workers had these five requests:

1. In the event that the worker is changed to work as a result of the need for restructuring or new work organisation, the worker will also be reduced wages, which is a legal offense;

2. Then the full working schedule takes 40 hours a week according to the law, and the exchange workers within the month have at least two weeks working from 48 hours a week, and those eight hours working overtime are not paid as such, and they are not paid 50 percent per hour for work over the weekend;

3. With the labor law working on jobs and work tasks for which, despite the application of safeguard clauses, cannot be protected from harmful influences, there is a right to an annual vacation of at least 30 days of work for the calendar year.

And the points from the collective agreement that do not require high costs are:

1. A day of work, a change in the dwelling place of the labourer, or, the family of the labourer; up to three days' work, for the elementary disasters;

2. If the employee doesn't get the results determined on the labor contract without his fault, he's up to 100% of his basic salary, for example, in us when the month is less than 22 days off the basic wage;

4. Compensation of pay during temporary departure during temporary departure time, employees have the right to pay compensation at 50%;

5. In the case of the death of the worker's immediate family, you are entitled to solidary assistance from two salaries.