Kathy Ugarte denies she fired worker for pregnancy: ‘It was due to dereliction of duty’

Cathy Ugarte, a congresswoman and former secretary of women who is not part of the group, confirmed that she did not fire a worker for being pregnant. According to the deputy, the girl who filed the complaint “made a drama” because of her failure to fulfill her duties.

“I provided all the technical and legal support, evidence in the case in which the employee was not fired due to pregnancy. All the drama she made in some of the media taking advantage of my benevolence by asking me please because I was going to fire her last year for consistently and consistently failing to do her job as they say in the chat rooms, I prove it,” he said He.

“That’s why he was fired and I’m within my rights because he gives me this right of trust, so he used his pregnancy to become a victim and hurt me in this way, because there are such people,” he added. press statements.

Cathy Ugarte said to expect ethics commission understand his explanations regarding the retirement of said employee. He regretted taking advantage of his trust to continue the work.

“I hope my congressional colleagues also all understand that this can happen to anyone, that there are people who take advantage of this, having a bad opportunity to stay at work. This is because she was going to be fired last year and she asked me to please let her stay until December and she even writes herself,” she added.

Melissa Gomez Caceres, spoke to RPP Noticias about the situation with her dismissal by Rep. Cathy Ugarte when she was six months pregnant. She stated that she started working when another worker quit because of abuse at work.

“I’m starting at the end of February 2022 and I’m called in to replace an employee who left due to counselor abuse. Roger Torres. My dismissal is also associated with personnel changes, I was not alone, there were three of them, ”he said in La Rotativa del Aire Night Edition.

On the other hand, she said that when she told the councilor and parliamentarian that she was pregnant, Roger Torres, The consultant of the firm, between a joke and the truth, began to say that now he will start asking for permits and licenses.

Denies a pay cut

Ugarte Mamani also denied that he cut the wages of his workers in order to use the money in publications for the Cusco media. In this sense, he assured that with this complaint they are trying to “damage his image.”

“I have not taken a salary from anyone and have never reduced anyone’s share. In my 30 years of work, I have never asked for a quota, and they can go to my school to investigate, never. That is why the prosecutor’s office is conducting an investigation,” he said in the Congress of the Republic.

Cathy Ugarte indicated that the communicators who spoke in the report must answer before the court after the journalistic report and appealed to the prosecutor’s office with a request to investigate them.

“The culprits are former communicators who no longer work in my office. I saw in the report that they also interviewed them and got to know them. Sun. Therefore, I have nothing to answer, those who should carry out this demarcation are communicators, ”he stressed.

communicator Yuri Gonzalezwho worked until September last year in Ugarte’s office, commented in a report that he proposed a “voluntary levy” as part of a communications strategy, but his predecessor, Manuel Navarro, said he was only taking orders from Ugarte’s chief adviser to congresswomen.