Mexico Government Resumes Severance Pay For Electricity Workers
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- The Mexican government said Wednesday it will resume
severance payments to former workers of electricity-distribution company Luz y
Fuerza del Centro, which was shut down last month.
The Labor Ministry said about 17,000 workers from the state-run LFC, as it was
known, could pick up checks equal to about two years salary on average. The
offer runs from Thursday to Dec. 23.
The severance payments include a bonus that is 30% lower than the bonus
accepted by LFC's other 27,500 workers prior to a Nov. 14 deadline, the ministry
said.
President Felipe Calderon ordered the closure of the power company, which
distributed energy to Mexico City and surrounding states, on Oct. 11.
Citing LFC's massive financial losses, Calderon said the company's operations
would be taken over by the larger of Mexico's two state-owned power utilities,
Comision Federal de Electricidad.
On Tuesday, opponents of the shutdown failed to garner enough votes in the
lower house of Congress to ask the Supreme Court to determine the
constitutionality of LFC's closure.
The Mexican Electricians Union is still seeking an injunction against the
layoffs in a lower Mexican court.
-By Laurence Iliff, Dow Jones Newswires; (52-55) 5980-5184, laurence.iliff@
dowjones.com
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