2023-05-15 03:52:06
After Avianca’s decision, which rejected the day before joining the low cost live air Under the conditions approved by the Colombian transportation authority, nearly 4,000 indirect workers are left without income. What will happen, meanwhile, with the direct employees that add up to more than 800 on the payroll? Viva?
Regarding them, Avianca announced that it is going to hire this group – according to what the advisor to the unions of this company told La República de Colombia, Carlos Roncancio. However, the uncertainty is regarding how this number of workers at Avianca will be accommodated.
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He considered that it should be verified how many can be relocated immediately and how many will have to wait. He said that Viva Air is currently in dissolution and liquidation. Therefore -in Colombia- labor rights are of the first order, “with which the company is obliged by virtue of the law to pay them as a privileged credit, the other creditors and according to the payment plan approved by the Superintendency must wait”.
The union adviser added that although the labor credits are paid first, the time is still uncertain, because according to the procedures that are being carried out, they can take between two and five years.
In this sense, the adviser said that the workers of Viva and the union organizations must begin an analysis process, “from there will come the legal alternatives that they have to safeguard their rights”.
He pointed out that even indirect workers could review the way to make legal claims (lawsuits) to defend their rights.
He also clarified that those actions that the workers can count on are directed against the institutions that were in charge of the integration decision and that the delay led to the company losing more and more assets and finally losing hope of recovering.
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“Viva It had been complying with the payment of a basic sum for the workers, but it is pending to pay legal, conventional benefits”, as he explained.
“It is necessary to see what position is assumed in front of these rights. If Viva does not pay and start this process, all these obligations go to the liquidation process. Workers have to take part to claim their labor rights, but they will have to seek advice from lawyers, these are costs that they will have to incur“, he pointed.
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