The BIC bank announced that it has decided to immediately suspend the ongoing executions against former Alicoop workers and suspend any future proceedings for 90 days to clarify the situation.
According to the newspaper Terra Ruiva, this decision was announced a few hours before the protest that, on the 26th, took to Lisbon close to a hundred former workers of the group, after a meeting at the EuroBIC headquarters in Lisbon, with those responsible for the bank and the workers' representatives, Paulo Martins, Luís Alves and Sérgio Catarino.
In the document released after this meeting, it is stated that a "commitment" was reached with the Euro BIC, in the sense of "immediately suspending the pledges in progress", "immediately canceling ongoing executive actions" and "stop new actions" .
It was also decided that “the filing of a declaratory action with the court” will be promoted to “definitively clarify the ownership of the claim”.
If this action is favorable to former workers, "the bank undertakes to return in full the amounts" that have already been paid by some of the workers in the meantime.
For the 8th of March, a «new meeting to monitor the proper execution of the assumptions assumed by the BIC bank is scheduled».
O Terra Ruiva newspaper, from São Bartolomeu de Messines, adds that about 100 former Alicoop/Alisuper workers demonstrated on the 26th in Lisbon, to protest "against undue charges related to the company's insolvency process."
The demonstrators left Lagos, Portimão, Silves and São Bartolomeu de Messines, in buses provided by the Municipal Councils of Lagos and Silves, and went to the headquarters of the BIC and Banco de Portugal banks.
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