The City Council of Santa Cruz held a meeting yesterday with the unions that represent the workers of the security company of the Consistory of the capital, SH Lanzarote, who have not received their payroll for months.
The Councilor for Organization, Alfonso Cabello, explained to the unions (UGT, USO and CSIF) that the City Council has reported two embargoes by the General Treasury of Social Security that affect the company, one in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and another in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, for an amount of 520,000 euros. “This situation blocks or makes it impossible for the City Council to make the payment it has prepared for the months of January and February, which add up to just over 300,000 euros,” the mayor of Organization explained to DIARIO DE AVISOS at the end of the meeting.
At the meeting, Cabello told the unions that “the City Council will meet on Tuesday with the General Treasury of the Social Security to try to ensure that the embargo does not become effective if we make the payment of the pending invoices, because the purpose of the income is to be able to pay payroll. To do this, we are going to propose that we pay the invoices to Banco Santander, which is the one that maintains a contract with the company for the payment of payroll, so, technically, we would not be paying the company, but rather the bank. that maintain a factoring (advance company payments) with SH Lanzarote”.
In that meeting, in addition, “we want to address not only the payment of those two bills, but also see how we progress in the payment of the following months. We must not forget that this is a contract that expires on January 23 and in parallel to the punctual solution we are concerned about the relationship over the next few months to guarantee the payment of payroll to workers”, he concluded.
The mayor of Organization had already announced that, in the event that the problems with the current successful bidder of the City Council’s security service are not resolved, he would not shake his pulse to replace it with another entity that provides the service. To do this, the work has been accelerated to have a framework contract under which to rely to carry out this possible substitution.
The breaches in the payment of payroll were accredited in a report issued on March 7, which led to the initiation of the corresponding file for the imposition of sanctions. In parallel, the City Council has met with the company to demand that it correct the situation, and with the Social Security Treasury to lift the embargo and allow the Town Hall to pay the last two invoices.
Cabello pointed out that the City Council “will be inflexible and forceful when it comes to sanctioning the breaches of the companies that provide services to the City Council.” Likewise, he insisted that he will not let “one more breach” pass and that he will not “tremble his pulse” if it were necessary to terminate the contract.
