The long-awaited enlargement of Route H-27 El Cobre Freeway has change into a unending story, and this Wednesday the employees of the Imaco firm as soon as once more started a piece stoppage because of the non-payment of their salaries.
In response to the chief and spokesman for the contractor’s staff, Francisco Morales, “what is going on is the debt of salaries and arrears from Might, and what’s most intricate for us now’s that we’re in arrears from June that has not but been paid and the July fee is approaching. The reply they offer us is that we’ve to attend for a invoice the place we will get the cash to pay the salaries and the uncertainty of the contract.”
That is the priority of the employees who say they can not bear any longer the financial instability of an organization that doesn’t have the monetary solvency to hold out a mission of such magnitude that may carry progress to the communities of Rancagua and Machalí.
The mission began on the finish of 2020 that promised to attach each communes with a 2.1-kilometer twin carriageway from Av. Bomberos Villalobos in Rancagua to the San Joaquín de los Mayos crossing in Machalí with substantial enhancements with an funding of practically $38 billion has confronted a number of delays for a piece that started building within the second half of 2021 with an preliminary deadline of 720 days.
In November 2022, the work was barely 30% full on the primary part, financed with greater than $9.5 billion from the FNDR. Expectations of finishing the street in mid-2023 vanished when IMACO, the corporate accountable, halted the works, alleging a rise within the worth of inputs and requesting a readjustment of 1.7 billion pesos from the Regional Authorities, extra cash that may enable the development works of the primary stage of the enlargement of the aforementioned street to restart and full the mega mission.
Regardless of the unanimous approval of the readjustment by the Regional Council in July 2023, the issues persevered and firstly of June this yr, IMACO once more stopped the works, including delays within the works that with every day of delay hurt the group.
Lower than a month has handed earlier than the identify of IMACO is as soon as once more on everybody’s lips, particularly its staff who’re instantly affected by the non-payment of salaries, as they declare, a actuality that the MOP Seremi, María de los Ángeles Latorre, is conscious of and corroborated the data.
“Yesterday (Wednesday) they (the corporate) stopped work once more. There’s a precedent from the Tax Inspector that he’ll fantastic the corporate because of the non-payment of the employees. We’re collectively accountable from the MOP with the fee to the employees and now that the deadline has handed, it’s an obligation to cost the corporate a fantastic, as a result of which means that the work can not advance because of this insolvency, so at the moment (Thursday) it stops work, and we’re ready to see what the corporate can do about it,” stated Latorre.
The Regional Director of Roads, Maurice Dintrans, added: “Yesterday afternoon, the Tax Inspector notified that the employees of the H-27 Route Enlargement mission, El Cobre Freeway, part 1, have been fired by the corporate for non-payment of wages. The corporate labored till 3:00 p.m., so the Tax Inspector adopted all the executive measures established within the MOP Public Works Contract Rules. At present, the contract is 28% delayed,” he indicated.
“Given this example, the corporate reported that work will resume in the course of the course of subsequent week. Because of this, the Fiscal Inspector will preserve a report of the times that work is stopped, and if it reaches 15 days, Early Termination of Contract can be set because of non-compliance by the corporate, one of many causes established within the MOP Public Works Contract Rules,” added Dintrans.
In response to Regional Councillor Lenin Arroyo, the corporate has promised the street division that the difficulty of wage funds can be regularised by Tuesday.
IT WILL BE DELIVERED IN LESS TIME THAN REQUESTED
Concerning the deadlines for the corporate to advance the work on the long-awaited freeway of the conurbation, the authority stated that though it isn’t but clear how a lot the extension interval can be, he stated that it is going to be lower than the one requested by the corporate “I had a gathering yesterday (Wednesday) with the director of Roads and Highways who have been nonetheless evaluating that, as a result of it’s much less days than what they (the corporate) are asking for. At this time, contractually, the contract continues till the thirty first of this month. If within the firm’s request there are causes that enable for an extension of the deadlines, the difficulty is that the total deadline has not been justified. What we noticed yesterday is that the Fiscal Inspector will probably grant lower than the request.”
The Regional Director of Roads added: “At present, the Roads Directorate is analyzing technically and administratively, and based mostly on what’s established by the MOP Rules, granting an extension of the time period requested by the corporate till December 2024, because the present time period expires on July 31 of this yr.”
The MOP Seremi indicated that if the contract extension interval stipulated by Vialidad isn’t met, “an Early Termination of the Contract have to be made if the corporate doesn’t adjust to the contract,” Latorre harassed, which may very well be a really potential state of affairs, in keeping with the authority “there are nonetheless no certainties about how the corporate will proceed with this contract,” stated the MOP Seremi.
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