During the strike against tax reform last year, Recope was down 60% of employees. Surprisingly, it still managed to distribute fuel. This led to the question of whether the entity could operate permanently with just 40% of its current staff.
The Government plans to modernize the institution. Part of this plan is evaluating the use of personnel. The Minister of Environment and Energy, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, believes Recope could easily operate with 40% of personnel. That would save the government a ton of money on the fixed cost to operate.
Of course, this brings to question what will happen to all those employees who are specifically trained for an industry that no longer needs them due to factors including the move toward alternative fuels. How will they make a living? The same happened in the past when logging stopped. Those same loggers later found work in the sustainable tourism industry brought about by the end of logging.
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That there is abuse there is abuse but it is a matter of regulating it, it would be worse to cede the negotiation to the transnationals because the money goes away and that does not benefit the people at least now the money is left hanging around although this does not necessarily benefit everyone, yes to many Costa Ricans who work for recope (The problem of fuels are taxes will always be the decision in the hands of the government of the day if we enjoy cheap fuel or not meanwhile we continue to prevent corruption and abuse but not delivering business to the transnationals