Reported layoffs on a Varela's donor company

The Panamanian Copa Airlines, whose majority shareholder is Stanley Motta, a giving of the presidential campaign of current President Juan Carlos Varela, fired 103 employees in January, according to the lawyer of the affected Aracelis Rodriguez.

Rodriguez said at the morning news NexTV that workers who have between three and seven years were laid off under the argument that they did not meet the expectations of the Panamanian transnational, although legal law said some of them the company previously presented them with certificates for excellence in their work.

"Unfortunately we see working with the authorities, call the Ministry of Labour, the company simply through the attorneys he has, which is the signature Mendoza, Arias, Valle and Castillo, arrives and says simply that the company holds in the dismissal, "said the lawyer.

He said he was concerned about unfair dismissal while the company retaliated with partners to express their disagreements on social networks by topics. Such as non-payment of annual productivity bonuses. Copa Airlines said the dismissals justified as going against the good image of the company.

He explained that a group of employees asked the company for better working conditions and Copa Airlines response with a dismiss without justification.

One of the victims told the media that the company paid unfairly benefits and incomplete because it did not include productivity bonuses and overtime.

He regretted that the union SIELAS is allegedly biased because when the situation was reported to mediate contacted at a future meeting to find a solution to the conflict with the company Copa Airlines, but the meeting never happened.

Another of the dismissed employees said that among the problems to be solved was the transfer to the employees to Arraiján and La Chorrera by carriers and processing company over "discriminated against " those who work on airport ramps.