MIAMI, United States.- In the midst of the serious energy crisis that Cubans are currently experiencing, the island government announced on Tuesday new measures that seek to save energy in the country and that will directly impact workers in the state sector.
According to a note published by the Cuban News Agency (ACN), the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTTS) will implement remote work and telework, work in the field, vacations, schedule adjustments and even job relocation.
The normativewhich seeks that state employees do not go to work so as not to waste electricity, does not explain how to carry out teleworking with daily blackouts and in some cases for more than ten hours.
Among the measures is the work interruption or suspension of a worker for an indefinite time, although the agency clarified that this “should be applied as a last option, when none of the previous alternatives can be used.
Likewise, says the provision, workers who cannot be relocated will have the right to a salary guarantee equivalent to 100% of their basic daily salary for one month, and “if it is determined to work in shorter working hours than those established, the salary will be will pay in correspondence of the real time worked and not 100%”.
Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, Cuban Minister of Labor, also explained that the directors of state companies are “responsible for adopting the measure they deem appropriate in each case, although this will not be admissible in the event that the reduction in working hours is approved. of work”.
According to the text, “the labor provisions must pay taxes on electricity savings, and at the same time protect the income of workers, which find legal support in Law 116, the Labor Code, its Regulations and Resolution 71/202.”
The Cuban electrical system, collapsed since the beginning of the summer on the island, has no short-term solution, as the government itself recently admitted.
An informative note published this Monday on the Facebook page of the Municipal Assembly of Los Palacios, in Pinar del Río, assured that currently “units 6, 7 and 8 of the CTE Mariel, the unit of CTE Otto Parellada, units 4 and 5 of CTE Nuevitas, units 1 and 2 of CTE Felton and unit 5 of CTE Rente”.
Meanwhile, Cubans, who must endure blackouts of 10 and 12 hours, have come out to demonstrate in recent days in different parts of the country.
This Monday night, according to reports and videos shared through social networks, simultaneous protests in 10 cities from the island: San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque; La Herradura and Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río; Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus; Antilla, Holguin; Caonao del Sur and Covadonga, in Cienfuegos, and Mabay, Granma.
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