Hondurans to receive Christmas bonus prioritize food, health, Tegucigalpa, HN - 09 Dec 2020
Christmas bonuses, known in Honduras as the aguinaldo, will be used by many to meet urgent needs derived from the COVID-19 pandemic and tropical storms Iota and Eta, as well as to pay debts accumulated during the health emergency. SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF TEGUCIGALPA (HONDURAS) AMID THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. SOUND BITES: GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE INDEPENDENT FEDERATION OF HONDURAN WORKERS JOSÉ LUIS BAQUENADO (IN SPANISH) TRANSLATIONS: There is an obligation. There is a law. The employers will have to see, they will have to make some superhuman effort to be in solidarity with the workers at this time. And we must take into account that it is the one that produces the goods, produces the services, who has the wealth. Wealth that they give in private hands. Today more than ever we expect that conscience of conviction because it is a law and we must comply with the law. I emphasize, they will have to look for alternatives if they are going through an economic crises, talk to the banks so that they can give them loans and things like that. If the worker has enough and has capacity, hopefully workers will be able to. Because workers are over-indebted, suffocated, and in domestic calamity.