SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 10 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has sent the Prosecutor’s Office a report regarding the irregularities detected in the granting of ‘incentive leave’ made in the companies of Casino Playa de Las Américas, Casino Taoro and Casino Santa Cruz from 2012 to 2019, without that there is evidence that there was no agreement or express authorization from the competent bodies or agencies.
Specifically, the documentation and annexes submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office refer to incentivized redundancies that, according to the study carried out, “could be classified as false disciplinary dismissals and unfair administration” that led to the payment of 1,579,945 euros in compensation.
In addition, it is the case that some workers came to collect “compensation greater than their annual salary, therefore exceeding the compensation for objective dismissal” through the conciliation procedure and without there even being a judicial resolution that forced to this, he picks up a note from the Cabildo.
The Government team indicates that from the moment it became aware of this procedure, it has informed the management bodies of the casino companies of all the steps that have been taken to clarify the facts.
As detailed in the report, in the letters sent to each of the affected workers, the dismissals were classified as “disciplinary dismissals”, which led the workers to appeal the decision of the companies, going to the Mediation Service Arbitration and Conciliation (SEMAC), where the companies recognized the unfairness of the dismissal and offered compensation to the workers that, in certain cases, exceeded that corresponding to an objective dismissal.
In this sense, the report highlights the fact that this modus operandi is repeated by several dozen workers who were fired between 2012-2019, many of them close to retirement age who, in no case, resorted to the courts to obtain their compensation.
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, recalls that already in the last audits carried out in the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, the Intervention area detected various irregularities in the dependent entities, which affected the hiring of personnel, the contracts with third parties and economic and financial management.
To counteract this situation, the Cabildo de Tenerife has promoted during this term the preparation of specific internal instructions and procedures to guarantee that the different public entities comply with basic standards such as the Public Contracts Law (CSP), the statute Basic of the Public Employee and the general law of subsidies.
