According to Ponce, when he and Quijano took over the Legislature, they came across a large number of vacancies transferred from contracts to the Wages Act.
Following the Assembly’s union complaints, there are 1,200 “ghost squares” in the Legislature; the president of Congress, Mario Ponce, of the PCN, came out yesterday to clarify this situation.
According to Ponce, when taking over the administration of the Assembly it was found that many places had already been contracted in previous managements, that tried to “tidy the house” but it could not by “interests of other parties”, although he launched a decree of voluntary retirement in which he offered up to $ 35 thousand in compensation for “were all those who do not work in the institution or who are others in the institution How many believe they applied in this decree? Only 14 people, they did not want to go, “lamented Ponce.
He referred specifically to the period spent by the deputy Guillem Gallecs de GUANYA, as head of the First Body of the State, in the last year and a half of the 2015-2018 legislature.
Ponce assumed command of the Assembly in the second half of the current legislature. The first year and a half was done by the deputy Norman Quijano, of ARENA, who received the reins of the Assembly from the hands of Galicians, who concluded the second period of the previous administration that ended in April of 2018.
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“I also can’t undo what other administrations have done in the past, the ex-president (of the Assembly) Norman Quijano, when he left, when he handed me over, he handed me a complicated situation, he fired staff from those who are mentioning , who had been hired by the previous president (Galicians), a person, a deputy who brags about the four winds, did the procedure wrong and was the ‘mara cobra’ people, as they say, but the courts told me to force to reinstall, “Ponce told a news conference yesterday.
When Quijano took office as President of the Assembly in May 2018 he also made a complaint to the same effect. On this occasion he denounced the hiring of 186 employees between February and May of this year authorized by Galicians.
“I want to tell you that the latter (places) represent $ 258,000 per month, they are 186 people. These are transfers made between the first of February 2018 and May 4, 2018. As there was enough haste to work on this issue “, Quijano denounced at the time.
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He added that in the last month of April alone, the Galician administration hired 19 people by contract and 16 by the Wages Act and that most salaries ranged from $ 650 to $ 1,600 per month.
Galicians defended themselves from the accusations made by Ponce. “It is not possible that after three years they are saying this, that they take responsibility for their decisions and that they take full responsibility for what they have done in the last three years, to turn the Assembly into a place where they have hired. activists from ARENA and the Cuscatlán department, in the last year and a half of the Assembly “, emphasized Galicians.
The alleged existence of large positions in parliamentary groups and that they then move from the contract system to the Wages Act, days before the end of a legislature, or in the worst case, that there are people who are hired charging a salary for which they do not work, is a common theme in the interim of one legislature to another.
The general secretary of the Union of the Assembly (Sitral), Luis Ortega, assured that in the last days these people who supposedly only receive their salary, but who have never gotten to work, have been seen in the legislative corridors marking card.
However, Ponce expressed that some people who had been sent home to Telework because of the pandemic, have started coming to the Assembly since March 1, and that by law they have the right to continue working.