The president of Ancap, Alejandro Stipanicic, criticized the companies Ríogas and Acodike for considering that the layoffs of workers in each of the companies are due to changes in business conditions imposed by the government.
“Ancap is no longer the regulator. Involving Ancap in purely business decisions is, to say the least, unfair“He stated this Tuesday at a press conference.
As a reason for the dismissal of the workers, Riogas indicated that as of March 1 and “for reasons totally unrelated to Riogas, the contractual and commercial conditions that governed the bottling of supergas changed for 15 years.”
The change in the rules of the game to which the distributor refers is the new lease which has been in force since March 1 for one of the two supergas bottling plants that are owned by Ancap.
The statement from the Riogas company stated that the company was facing new and “significant leasing and investment costs” at the bottling plant and financial costs for purchasing supergas on credit. This added to a smaller volume of packaging.
Stipanicic denied the contract increase. “The rental cost was free, three companies submitted offers for the two plants and for two different terms. It was the companies’ decisionAcodike who won the plant for 5 years and Riogas who won for eight years. If Riogas offered twice as much, he did so based on his freedom,” he assured.
Until February 28, the plants were leased by Gasur (40% owned by Ancap, 30% by Acodike and 30% by Riogas).. Last year ancap He had informed that these contracts would not be renewed with the same conditions and for that reason he made a call for bids for the next rental contracts.
In the case of Acodike, the company issued a statement explaining the dismissal of 14 effective workers and the rest temporary. “Unfortunately, in this case reality has shown that, despite these efforts, certain roots of wanting to keep jobs that do not add value to the client, force structural changes to maintain the survival of the company in a responsible manner.”
Stipanicic also crossed over to that company. “Acodike cannot argue that it is not being paid for the rental costs that they themselves offered and for the personnel that they were forced to hire due to the conditions that Ducsa set,” he assured.
“It strongly calls our attention that last Friday there was a coordinated action between two companies that dominate 70% of the supergas market,” he said.
The last friday Riogas decided to fire 26 bottling plant operators and Acodike took the same measure with 27 workers.
