Account Channel There sends workers to lay-off in cost reduction process

ANDthis information was transmitted to the workers by executive president, Sérgio Figueiredo, in an email sent on Friday, to which Lusa had access today.

“ In September, with the 15th as a reference, the project enters a new phase, obtaining means that it never had to accelerate investments and fulfill the Account There as it was thought. [...] The question is ‘how to survive there’? What must be done so that the collapse is not drastic and definitive”, says the missive.

The executive committee said that the solution that it intends to implement “immediately” is a ‘lay-off’ process, because it understands that it “protects more people and the company”, avoids the “atomic bomb” of collective dismissal, keeps the workers linked and is reversible at any time.

“Reducing the cost scale is vital. We have to go back to being less, to be more”, he said.

The former information director of TVI also pointed out that the delay in paying May wages is due to the lack of “sufficient funds to pay everyone”, and it was possible to regularize the situation to about 40 workers, “but most still do not receive what is due”.

“ As the same mistake is not made twice (and although again we have been assured the payment by day 7 of an amount that allows to settle all the salaries and services of the month of May), the only possible date of being mentioned for the settlement of our accounts is July 31st”, said Sergio Figueiredo, ensuring that the administration continues to “do everything to anticipate” this date.

The company has ensured that it will cooperate with workers who, in the extreme event of financial difficulties, want to quickly disengage to seek an alternative work that guarantees a source of immediate income and has said that in the next 12 weeks it is “critical” to find a grid of programs that, “in an intelligent way and at low cost, create the feeling that there is always something new every day”.

“ I am aware that a company that is not being able to pay its people cannot require them to work normally, especially when there is no absolute certainty about the date on which the first payment will take place. What I am saying to you is that you are exempt from fulfilling the obligations that the contract of employment binds you, as of Monday”, explained the executive president.

The ‘lay-off’ consists of a temporary reduction in working hours or suspension of contracts at the initiative of the company, in which the State ensures, through Social Security, between 60% and 70%) of the remuneration of the workers affected.

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Lusa tried to contact Sérgio Figueiredo, but it has not yet been possible.