The Santa Rita Home Company Committee, the largest geriatric residence in Spain, once again convenes a protest rally this Monday 27 to show its disagreement with the delays in the payment of salaries to the staff. The protest will take place between 1:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.at the gates of the residence, located at number 127 of the Las Dehesas road, in Puerto de la Cruz.
The representation of the workers wants to show their discomfort at the management of the Management of the Fundación Canaria Hogar Santa Rita, “in relation to the continuous delay in the payment of salaries and the defenselessness that produces us that there is no guarantee so that this is not repeated in the following months”.
“Once again the inability of the Management of this Foundation is revealed, which has communicated to the staff in an assembly that there is no guarantee to comply with the payment of salaries in the following months. The Board of Trustees of the Hogar Santa Rita Canarian Foundation continues without assuming responsibilitiesnor provide any solution to a management manifestly incapable”, laments the Works Council.
The representatives of the staff regret that this situation occurs in a foundation that “is responsible for providing professional care in the best conditions to a total of 510 residents”, and which also receives a large annual public investment for its concerted places.
The 450 workers at Hogar Santa Rita received their January payroll on February 17. Despite the fact that the Island Council of Tenerifethrough the IASS, maintains 374 concerted places in this nursing home, for which it contributes more than 6 million euros annually to the Fundación Canaria Hogar Santa Rita, the staff has suffered delays in the payments of their salaries in the months of April, July and September 2022, and also in February 2023. An “inadmissible” situation in the opinion of the Works Council.
