Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) has reported to the Labor Inspection the non-payments carried out by the company ‘Seguridad Límite 24 Horas’. Their security guards at the visitor center of the Cabañeros National Park, in Horcajo de los Montes, have not been paid for two months, which has led the union to report the situation to this autonomous body of the Government of Spain.
As they have stated, currently the workforce has not received the payroll for July and August and, according to the union, the company "has no intention of settling the salary debts that it already accumulates or of paying the remaining monthly payments until another company, Seguridad Integral Secoex SA, will take over the contract in the middle of next October”.
Initially, they contacted those responsible for these workers, since they continue to provide service, just as Seguridad Límite 24 Horas continues to promptly collect monthly payments from National Parks. However, since this company learned that their contract was not going to be renewed, they stopped paying payroll, seeking to be taken over by the new company, as reported by the Secretary of Organization of CCOO-Hábitat Castilla La Mancha, Alejandro Jiménez.
The union also points out that the lack of income is not the only problem of these security guards, but that "in order to collect the salaries of those who are creditors, they have to file lawsuits against the current company, against which He is going to succeed her in the contract and even in front of the client himself [National Parks]; with the time, inconvenience and additional expenses that this entails.”
CCOO denounces a “sad situation” in the private security sector
The company Seguridad Límite 24 Horas, which in the Community of Madrid has a staff of 30 people, provides its security services in three Public Administration centers: the General Secretariat of Treasury and International Financing, the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Bullfighting Affairs Center. Apparently, as explained by CCOO in a statement, the company had not paid regularly for some time.
Added to this is that the company does not have a branch in Madrid, with its main headquarters in Albacete, which has led many of its workers to complain about not having a structure in the region.
Likewise, the union has contacted different clients to make the situation known, waiting for them to intervene and take measures to expedite the collection of pending payrolls. In this sense, the head of CCOO Security Sector of Habitat Madrid, Luis Bernal Ruiz, assures that “this situation only ratifies the sad situation that the private security sector is going through.”
A situation that, as he explains, occurs “due to the continuous allocation of clients to security companies, especially in the public administration, under a criterion largely based on price and to companies with the cheapest economic proposal.”
For this reason, CCOO has asked clients of security companies, as well as administrations and public organizations, “not to trust ‘cheap’ companies to provide these services.” Explaining “that they weigh the price is logical”, but not that they put it “before the criteria of solvency and responsibility”. Regarding this, to conclude, they defend that "there are very serious and consolidated companies in this sector that can offer the service completely correctly.“cio and to companies with the cheapest economic proposal.”
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