The Production Development Corporation (Corfo) in the Bío Bío region, must indemnify 14 workers from the Lota Sorprendente circuit, who were fired after the start of the covid-19 pandemic.
From Corfo they assured that they have not yet been notified of the Supreme Court ruling that orders compensation for 14 workers from the Lota Sorprendente circuit, Bío Bío region, who were fired at the beginning of the pandemic.
The dismissal of the officials, it occurred when they were providing services to the defunct Corporación Baldomero Lillo.
Everything goes back to last March 31, 2020 when the group of workers was fired without compensation for years of service or payment of other items, such as the amounts owed for annual and proportional holidays.
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The reason expressed by the administration at that time was “ fortuitous event and force majeure”, due to the start of the health emergency due to covid-19.
To this is added that, in the case filed before the Lota Guarantee Court, the plaintiffs pointed out that during the summer season, despite the social outbreak, the work of the Lota Surprising circuit was carried out “normally& #8221;.
Hence, the group of former employees filed a legal action “for unfair dismissal”, since there was no prior notice around the drastic decision made by the defunct administration.
Following the first instance ruling, the Production Development Corporation (Corfo) in Bío Bío filed an appeal for annulment, which was rejected by the Concepción Court of Appeals in April 2021; and at the beginning of this month, the highest court -finally- did not accept the legal action that seeked to unify the jurisprudence.
The ruling indicates that the role that corresponded to the aforementioned entity “by concessioning the cultural heritage of the commune of Lota, for its promotion and preservation, it exceeds the margins of an administrative contract and configures the liability regime under study”; that is to say, he It is up to the group of dismissed workers to be compensated.
In this regard, the executive director of the Corfo Bío Bío Committee, Roberta Lama, pointed out that “they have not yet been notified” of what the Supreme Court determined regarding the workers of Lota Sorprendente.
To your At the same time, he stressed that several of the officials who were dismissed by the now-defunct Baldomero Lillo Corporation work for the administration headed by Fundación ProCultura, which is why they seek, he added, to “minimize the damage generated” for the judicialization of the conflict.