In relation to the claim of ex-workers of contractor companies of Itaipu Binacional, the entity reiterated that the law sanctioned by the National Congress in August of last year was vetoed by the Executive Power on October 5 of the same year.
Through a statement, Itaipu Binacional stated that according to the constitutional procedure for the treatment of laws, the Legislative Branch had a period of 60 days to analyze the presidential decision and accept the veto or ratify the sanction. In the National Congress, what was resolved by the Executive within the determined period was not analyzed, so the veto was automatically signed and the law could no longer be promulgated.
It should be remembered that The decision of the Executive Power was given after an exhaustive legal analysis and the legal advisers of the National Government described the measure as unconstitutional and that it would have a high cost for the State.
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In addition, the main argument put forward to support the veto was that the parliamentary initiative is legally unfeasible, since The management of the Binational and its financial resources is undivided and is subject to an International Treaty. Therefore, it cannot be modified by the Congress of either of the two signatory countries of the agreement.
In addition, the institutional position of the Binational Entity had already been exposed in all instances, before the Technical Board made up of legislators from our country and the representatives of the aforementioned organizations, whose members were never part of the ITAIPU Binacional’s own staff of employees.
In that area, The Binational confirmed that the claims consisting of payment to some 16,000 people, which would represent some 940 million dollars, according to the claim of the claimants, whose identity and employment relationship is not recognized by ITAIPU, they are legally inadmissible.
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Likewise, it must be specified that the Judiciary, through the competent Courts and Tribunals, had already rejected multi-million dollar claims from these ex-workers for the same reasons and for the same claims in different labor lawsuits.
