SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 15 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The senator of the Canarian-PNC Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, has asked the PSOE to “clear up doubts” about the future of the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE), which are scheduled to end next month.
In a statement, the nationalist, who registered an interpellation to the Government in the Senate, will demand that the protection of workers affected by the consequences of the economic crisis be guaranteed, “aggravated by the sixth wave of the coronavirus and that especially affects the case of the Canary Islands, to the tourism sector”.
Clavijo accused the Executive of Pedro Sánchez of waiting, “once again”, at the last moment to start a negotiation with the social and economic agents that gives peace of mind to workers and the business sector.
In this regard, he pointed to the lack of foresight of a government that “has failed to anticipate the impact of the sixth wave on the economy or on the public health system, which is on the verge of collapse.”
Similarly, the CC senator reproached the PSOE and its government partners for “continuing to lurch in the management of a health crisis that, unfortunately, no matter how hard they try, has not ended.”
In this context, he warned that “without certainties on the part of the Administration, it will be very difficult to walk towards a recovery that is unfeasible if it is not even capable of adopting measures to mitigate the effects of this sixth wave.”
For his part, Clavijo will also demand that “the Canary Islands’ situation of special vulnerability and dependence on foreign countries be taken into account to sustain an economy that depends directly and indirectly on tourism and, therefore, not only on the epidemiological situation of the islands, which is going through a very delicate moment, with peaks of more than 6,000 infections recorded in one day and more than 80 deaths in the first two weeks of this 2022, but also of the situation of the issuing countries and the restrictions to travel “.
