The Association of Statistics and Census Employees denounced that the workers of the Pre-Census 2023, who were hired in a recent public call, suffered changes in their working conditions to those published in the original call.
“Public calls were made establishing a form of payment and amountsalso promoted through various means of communication, which later turned out to be not such: income and payment methods were promised that at the moment of truth were not true“The union said in a statement.
in conversation with The Observer, the president of the union, Juan Ludzcanoff, gave more details of the situation. “Originally, they had been promised, according to the call, $15,000 fixed and $15,000 piecework.”
The 14th of February The Observer published the bases of the call that confirm what was said by Ludzcanoff. Those who work as census takers They may charge up to $30,000 nominal for a daily workload of approximately 6 hours (five and a half days a week).. The potential sum is divided into two: a fixed part of $15 thousand and another part according to the work carried out by the person, which is also estimated at $15,000 “for a month of hiring”, was explained in the call, which appears still posted in the Web page.
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Original call from the INE
But, at the time of signing, denounces Ludzcanoff, they were not allowed to have a copy of the contract and when the time came to collect, the conditions were changed. They had to be day laborers, who would be paid $100 per hour worked, plus some variables per address and area completed. Ludzcanoff denounces that the precensistas should have full availability to work but that the vast majority were not called or were called on few occasions.
In the current call to census takers and pre-census takers, which has a link that is https://censo2023.uy/llamado-test-delete/the change is shown and it is marked that $800 will be paid per day worked.
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Current call of the INE
On the other hand, the union also denounces that those who were hired as census controllers suffered changes in their working conditions. When working in a call center regime, denounce that the hours of rest and working conditions were not adequate. According to the union, this led to the termination of the contracts of those who made claims.
“Once again, a management that proceeds arrogantly, without listening to the workers if they are critical, that is handled in a closed circle of opinions of the officials that she herself appointed discretionally, ignoring the administrative career and collective bargaining,” he said. the union in the statement, which hopes to start a negotiation for these workers at the Ministry of Labor.
The Observer tried to communicate with the director of the National Institute of Statistics, Diego Aboal, but received no reply.
