The workers claim that since March the company has dismissed more than 250 workers and that the wave of layoffs will continue until next year.
Argentina.- Since March, the Casino City Center Rosario has laid off more than 250 employees from various sectors. This has caused concern among workers as they feel "abandoned".
In the last months of 2023, the Casino City Center Rosario announced that they planned a restructuring of their staff this year, although no details were given. From March, this situation began to be noticeable. The "full time" employees with the most seniority were the first to suffer this "restructuring". Employees in a dependent relationship, from regular working days, with more years linked to the company, were dismissed.
The goal is to shed staff with higher categories and "change" the mode of employment, hiring for three months, subcontracting, or outsourcing, thus avoiding the payment of social charges, prioritizing "part-time" workers, and paying lower wages.
The dismissals have already risen to more than 250. Sources close to the situation confirmed to the media Versión Rosario that the corresponding complaints were made to the Ministry of Labor, but that "curiously" they never transcended. They also assure that the workers are afraid, as they reported workplace abuse and the only thing they received were threats and pressures not to declare or initiate legal actions.
"Last year they were already telling me that there would be a restructuring of employees this year, but they did not say what it consisted of," explained to the media a former worker who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
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"They are trying to minimize all full-time staff to hire part-time people. The full-timers are working six working days for two hours of rest, all people with seniority. Now they are taking subcontracted, outsourced, or hired for three months. With a salary of people with seniority, with category, they pay three of the current salaries, they have more staff for the same money, and the difference is that with the contracts they make now they are not obliged to pension contributions nor to provide health insurance," added the worker.
About how this wave of layoffs started, he illustrated: "They began to dismiss in March, about 100 workers. So far this year they have dismissed about 250 colleagues, and by the end of the year more layoffs are expected, from different sectors."
