The State Society of Land Transport Infrastructures (SEITT) has dismissed the 30 workers of the AP-7 Toll in Alicante with the minimum legal compensation. CCOO criticises that no redeployments have been offered in other public companies.
The State Society of Land Transport Infrastructures (SEITT), dependent on the Ministry of Transport, executed the dismissal of the 30 workers of the AP-7 Toll in Alicante on Monday. The Employment Regulation File (ERE) has been applied following the toll's release for public interest, approved by the Council of Ministers last year.
CCOO has denounced that the exit conditions are the minimum legally required: 20 days per year worked with a cap of 12 monthly payments, plus an average supplement of about €7,500 per person. The union believes these conditions "do not compensate for the harm suffered" by the staff.
Minimum compensation and prior ERTE
The affected workers had already consumed unemployment benefits during the 16 months of prior ERTE, while the company argued that the lifting of barriers was provisional. CCOO points out that, had an agreement not been reached, the company would have paid only the legal minimum without any supplement.
The union insists that the agreed conditions fall below the usual standards in employment regulation files without economic causes. According to CCOO, the negotiation has been conditioned by the public nature of SEITT and by the amounts authorised by the Ministry of Finance.
"The exit conditions do not compensate for the harm suffered by the staff," denounces CCOO.
No redeployments or compensations
CCOO also criticises that SEITT has not accepted the redeployment of the staff to other public companies under the Ministry of Transport. It has also not accepted transfers to other centres when these involved a promotion, nor has it hired the services of a redeployment company.
Furthermore, the union reproaches that no compensation for relocation has been included for the voluntary transfers offered in other autonomous communities. From CCOO, they lament the "mistreatment received" by the staff, both from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport.
Pending wage gap
CCOO warns that the affected individuals are leaving the company without the "gender wage discrimination" identified in the equality plan diagnosis being resolved. According to the union, the wages of the toll categories affected by the collective dismissal remain linked to a wage gap pending negotiation.
The union believes this situation exacerbates the harm caused to the staff at the closure of the process. For the affected workers, the exit occurs without prospects of redeployment and with economic conditions they consider insufficient.
The Ministry of Transport, for its part, has extended the toll-free period of the AP-7 Toll in Alicante for another year and is working to definitively lift the toll, given the "good results" in decongesting the A-70. Meanwhile, the dismissed workers are left with the minimum compensation and no redeployment plan in sight.
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