Camp John Hay Leisure Incorporated (CJHLI), the company handling John Hay businesses The Manor, The Forest Lodge, and the CAP-John Hay Trade and Cultural Center, is reportedly in negotiations with the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) in a bid to ensure the continued employment of the workers in those businesses.
Federico Mandapat Jr., counsel for CJHLI said that they are trying to guarantee that the 487 employees under the CJHLI’s umbrella do not get evicted as part of the transition to the camp being managed by the BCDA in full.
According to CJHLI, the company also seeks to preserve the interests of the nearly 400 individual unit owners in the hotels under CJHLI’s management umbrella.
However, CJHLI clarified that there is no intent to take legal action yet against BCDA, and that the CJHLI is waiting for the BCDA and the Camp John Hay Development Corporation (CJHDevCo) talks to conclude.
The company is only intending to eye legal action in case that the need arises should negotiations break down.
The BCDA has since committed to as clean a transition as they can manage, but have also made clear that any of the establishments and lessors that want to keep their stay in John Hay can do so on the condition that they agree to sign fresh contracts with the BCDA.
