Catis: a light at the end of tunnel
ERE approval allows workers access to unemployment and seek wage guarantee fund to collect what is owed
FAM The flagship plant closing and fiftieth anniversary of Mao as CATI can never be good news, but that their workers can start typing some money after half a year without charge is at least a small light in this long tunnel. Approval of Record of Employment Regulation (ERE) presented at the urging of union representatives can, now, the staff of 31 employees apply for unemployment benefits and seek wage guarantee fund (FOGASA) to collect more than six monthly payments due to them or at least, the share of working 150 days and 20 days per year worked for compensation to cover the agency said. The rest will be put, if you can, the company, whose leaders are meeting tomorrow with the workers, yesterday and did not attend the factory, to explain the steps to start collecting unemployment as soon as possible. bittersweet As found by the secretary general of the Workers' Commissions (CCOO) on the island, Ramon Carreras, the feelings that live these days the 31 workers are "bittersweet" because that mix in order uncertainty about how much longer will be without charge, on the one hand, and the always dramatic situation that involves the loss of employment, on the other, more pronounced among those older employees faced with only two years of unemployment, labor market low hours. "The trouble broke out in 2000 and there are people who have fought hard during these nine years to save this," said Carreras, who in the coming days will meet with staff and the company to accurately calculate the amounts owed to each worker. What is not covered by the Wage Guarantee Fund (FOGASA), ie, anything greater than 150 days of work, "is a debt to be charged in depending on whether there is money to pay or there is not, "Carreras said. As of yesterday, the only activity in which the factory will be the five workers who up until Monday morning or, at most, be responsible, completely voluntary, to go finish the orders. The economic crisis and the explosive 40% fall in turnover CATI it has caused have been the last straw to make the closure of the company into a reality, then neither the loan of 200,000 euros from the Balearic Government last summer or the 500,000 that the company has spent recent years could avoid bankruptcy, first, nor the record of employment regulation, then. The debt of EUR 1.5 million Social Security Finance and inherited from previous management and costly transport which was undertaken with virtually no financial assistance of any kind ultimately have prevented the revival of the company that fifty years after Mao says goodbye . The financial responsibility for CATI factory in Mahon, Pau Montserrat, son of the former director of the company, said yesterday a feeling of "sadness" at the consummation of the closing of "Mao's flagship factory of more than 50 years of history and not have felt enveloped in the Balearic Government. " "It is clear that if there is no alternative to closing you can not blame the Govern, but I thought I would get involved more in the situation of workers, or out on the more personal," he acknowledged Montserrat, which is scheduled meet the 31 workers will go tomorrow to explain how the process should allow them to start as soon as possible to collect unemployment benefits. "The word that best describes your feelings is to have felt helpless," said the economist in relation to the months leading workers without pay. "Probably not a drop in sales as strong and some institutional support could be weathering the storm, "said Montserrat, which complains that" the Govern decided from the outset not to intervene, because they do not want to consider a strategic enterprise. "
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