Opinion and resolution of the Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of Labor exempt the Public Communication Company of Ecuador EP from paying debts
He still retains that characteristic tone of an announcer, which was heard for 27 years through the signals of rbye Bye La Prensa Sport Y The Telegraph, where he also worked as a sound engineer.
However, for five months the voice of Carlos Reyes Padilla It has been fading, little by little, since a catastrophic illness put him in a bed at the National Institute of Hygiene, after fighting for more than three years for its liquidation, from sit-in to sit-down, after being fired on February 27, 2018 .
Reyes is part of the dozens of former media collaborators seized by the State who demand the payment of their liquidations, five of them have already died since 2018 to date, lamented Margarita Constante, spokeswoman for those affected who belonged to Cablevisión, Editorial Uminasa, Super K800, Carrousel and the two radios mentioned above.
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“I have tuberculosis, problems with the liver, with the kidneys, I had problems with COVID-19, I have problems with the urinary tract, and there is no settlement at all, sometimes I don’t even have to buy food,” he complained to an exlocutor , 65, who now subsists with the support of her sister, also a senior citizen.
With disappointment, he recalls hearing President Guillermo Lasso, when he was a candidate, being interviewed in Super K800, where “he promised that he was going to kill us, but now it seems that he has forgotten about us, I don’t know, he doesn’t take care of us.”
Also shocked, Constante recalled her deceased colleagues: Pedro Chang, Freddy Vera and Javier Ortiz, from Cablevisión; Y from Super K800 José Véliz and Benito Vernaza, who passed away on July 19.
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“Two days before Don Benito asked me if I thought Guillermo Lasso was going to pay us and I told him to have faith, he went to the doctor for a pain in his belly and died two days later, a neighbor found him and left without see its liquidation, “lamented the communicator, who now subsists as an informal taxi driver; merchant and with an enterprise that he set up with his daughter.
But not everyone has, even if it is, that slim possibility.
Constante assured that his colleagues no longer have the money to mobilize and hold sit-ins, and have decided to cancel the one they carried out in previous years, with a Christmas dinner theme, outside the Public Media offices, now in liquidation.
He assured that they feel that everything advanced in three years has been lost, especially when the bill sent a week after the end of Lenín Moreno’s government to the National Assembly, which sought to establish a legal basis that allows the payment of pending settlements it was withdrawn by the current Government last September for containing provisions that sought a comprehensive reform of the Organic Law of Public Companies, without observing the nature of those companies.
“One more year is ending and we have not received a resolution from any authority,” criticized Constante, who assured that to date, despite sending letters and requests to the new Government, no official has met with them in person or virtually.
He added that Galo Roldós, general manager of the Public Communication Company of Ecuador EP, the sole shareholder of the seized media, did not attend a call made by Reyna Macías, radio liquidator Bolivar (Super K800 in Guayaquil) on November 26, to resolve the payment to former workers.
Roldós excused himself for reasons of force majeure, according to Constante, who has only maintained contact with the official, through WhatsApp chats.
She assured that the Government bases its argument on a report from the State Attorney General’s Office, which indicates that the seized media are private, so the State cannot allocate resources for the payment of liquidations, although she qualified that position as an excuse. .
EL UNIVERSO newspaper contacted Roldós to request information on the current status of the process.
The official, who began his administration on August 26, assured that the consultations made by the previous regime to the Attorney General’s Office, in October 2020, and to the Ministry of Labor, in March 2021, exempt from responsibility for the payment of the debts of the seized private companies, to the company holding their shares, that is, the Public Communication Company of Ecuador EP.
In the case of the Attorney General’s Office, Roldós assured that the entity ruled: “(…) a public company that is a shareholder of private companies, as is the case of Public Media EP in liquidation, is excluded from employer solidarity, in accordance with the tenor of the third paragraph of article 36 of the Labor Code, in accordance with article 143 of the Companies Law ”.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Labor argued that “the employment relationship between the employer and its workers is independent and does not extend to its shareholders, consequently the Public Communication Company of Ecuador EP is not the employer of any worker of the companies of the who is a shareholder ”.
The State portfolio added that “the payment of labor obligations with former workers corresponds to each of the private media in application of the rules that regulate corporate liquidation (…)”.
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Roldós described this problem as “painful”. “The rights of so many fellow communicators and people from the professional union to which I belong have been violated by previous governments, whom I appreciate very much and fully sympathize with them,” said the official, who assured that they have worked “to reverse the injustices previously committed ”.
He revealed that at the moment they are working with the information that they have requested, collected and verified and requested additional information from the legal representatives of the seized companies.
“We have made the necessary calls to the liquidators of the seized media, who are summoned to extraordinary meetings of each company, regardless of the upcoming festivities including, highlighting our complete commitment to the sensitive situation that so many injured parties have been going through for years,” he said. the manager of the Public Communication Company. (I)
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