The base business units (UEBs by its Spanish acronym) require help to assume the new faculties conferred by the Government since September 2020 because they are not yet prepared, from the financial point of view, to operate autonomously, an expert from the Provincial Directorate of Work and Social Security said.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- During an appearance in the radio magazine Hablemos de… (Let’s talk about…), Arcelio López Torres, deputy director of the Organization of Work and Salaries, insisted that many of the UEBs of the territory could not immediately implement the financial prerogatives that they now enjoy thanks to the Decree-Law that was released on May 7. Precisely, he said, that lapse between the approval of the measures, at the end of 2020, and their entry into force last month, caused the distribution of profits at the end of the first quarter to be carried out only at the enterprise level.
So far, he specified, 11 entities were able to pay profits in the province, and seven more must be added in the current month. Others are still waiting for the review and update of the statistics by the respective higher corporate management organizations (OSDE) to which they are subordinated.
“Despite the current situation in most of our entities, many of which do not fulfill their productive commitments due to the lack of raw materials and a shortage of energy carriers, caused by the intensification of the U.S. blockade and the health crisis; it is encouraging that more than 12 thousand workers can receive, above their salary, another monetary quota resulting from their own efforts to overcome the material and financial, limitations,” he affirmed. It is necessary, López Torres stressed, to continue informing and preparing public employees on the issues related to the distribution of profits.
Recently, the legal director of the Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP), Ivonne Rodríguez, described the compendium of legal norms that released several ties to the base business units (UEB) as a prelude to the Business Law, to be approved in 2022. The official urged that businessmen get out of their comfort zone and take advantage of these opportunities on the new legal basis already created.
