Lucena City Hall updates the price of the home help service contract by 4.5%

As reported by the Lucena City Council in a note, this update will be applied from May 1, 2024 and that, once the company has paid the requested invoices, the Lucena City Council will proceed to request the amount to the Junta of Andalusia, “who will be responsible for paying the new amounts to the municipality.”

The proposal received favorable votes from the entire municipal chamber, with the exception of the PSOE and the IU. From the socialist group, Francisco Algar, affirmed that “this new amount does not correspond to the price of the offer, but to the maximum cost that could be paid for this service, therefore as there are no circumstances that have arisen in the company, there is no reason for its modification.

IU spokesperson Miguel Villa gave as an example that “the increases in these economic amounts favorable to the company in recent years have not led to an improvement in workers’ wages.”

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For his part, the PP Advisor, Francisco Aguilarclarified that “this is not a modification but rather an adjustment of the price” and that “as indicated in the collective agreement, these workers will benefit from an increase of 27.5% until 2027 .

“There is no formal claim from the company, the works council or the person responsible for the contract that a lower salary than that agreed by the company is being received. provision of this service “In any case, we all agree that he should be paid better,” as Jesús López also defended from Ciudadanos.

During the plenary session, the agreement was also adopted with the only vote against the IU for the implementation of an alternative social use by Amara for the Training and Employment Center in Renewable Energy and Environment continued to the project of this regional mental disability association. .