Seamstress asks more than $ 2 million for Cristina Kirchner – 11/28/2018

A seamstress who claims to have worked for the famous designer Susana Ortiz devoting herself exclusively to making clothes for Cristina Kirchner She brought a $ 1 million lawsuit against her former employer and the former president.

It is about Belinda Castellano, which according to the documentation, was hired by Ortiz in 2008 to devote itself "exclusively to the demand for orders placed by President Cristina Kirchner".

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"When Ms. Ortiz contacted me for this task, I accepted without hesitation, it was an honor to make the costumes that Mrs. Fernandez would wear, so I kept in a notebook all the fabrics I wore in the suits I wore "noted Castellano in the trial.

The seamstress badured that although in the Ortiz workshop located on Avenida Callao 1431, in the heart of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoletaclothes were made for "personalities such as Mirtha Legrand, Susana Giménez, Andrea del Boca" and others.

In the documentation, published Wednesday by the information website InfobaeCastellano refers to such details as: "The black dress that he wore at his second investiture as President of the Nation was entirely crafted by me."

The seamstress claimed that the renowned designer I paid it in black and that the workshop was "a small room without window or light". "He never paid me any social work or related SAC, nor leave as required by the legislation in force," he says. And, among other details, he adds: "When he paid me the salary, he made me take out blank papers with my signature, clarifications and the number of the document, in which he stated that I would complete them later ".

He explained that in 2017, he had "a very strong pain in the right shoulder" and asked Ortiz to put him in white so he could consult a kinesiologist through a social work . The exchange of letters then began until October 2017, when he was fired.

The document indicates that the request concerns $ 2,353,282, 31 and that the amount corresponds, inter alia, to seniority pay, overtime, pay cuts and unpaid vacation.