Administration of the “Economic Daily” admits insolvency – Express

The management of the Economic Journal admitted this Tuesday a company’s insolvency scenario in the newspaper continuity plan, promising until Thursday to acquaint the workers the consequences of this scenario and the Special Process Revitalization (PER).

in a statement to the Lusa had access, the Installation Committee of the Workers’ Committee explained that on Tuesday morning met with the administrator Gonçalo Faria de Carvalho, who said that “it was not possible to obtain one buyer response (…), put on the table an insolvency scenario considered in the newspaper continuity plan “.

in this scenario, the commission proposed the administrator to present” until Thursday morning PER scenarios them and insolvency and the implications of each “to be presented for consideration by the workers.

” the result of this query is then weighted by the administration, which will have the final word, “read If the statement

the administration also conveyed that maintains the intention of paying the salaries of December. – a part of the 140 workers received the full and only another part of December salary – until February 29, the date where present the payment plan of January salaries.

Since the direction of the Economic Daily called on the administration to find a solution for the project “in the shortest period of time”, explaining that he can not continue to work with the current constraints.

“in the absence of developments that can solve these problems and the deterioration of the operating means, the writing is unable to continue to provide products with the quality that readers and telespetadores the Economic’re used, “reads the statement sent to the company’s management of Ongoing who has the paper and the Economic TV channel (ETV), to which the Lusa had access.

day where workers gather in plenary, the editorial board wrote to the administration asking to find in the shortest period of time, a solution to the editorial project of the Economic and the direction thereof, made by Raul Vaz, Bruno Faria Lopes, Francisco Ferreira da Silva and Tiago Freire, that “maintain full readiness to continue to assist the Economic find a solution.”

on that note, the guidance stresses that “the Economic, across different platforms – newspaper, website and television – has faced in recent months serious financial and operational constraints, “referring to the existence of wage arrears and output professionals, especially journalists to other media houses

the bank. of Haitong investment (former BESI) is mandated to sell the newspaper, happening a process of negotiations.