Civil servants feel at different moments wage cuts that go into effect on Saturday. In some cases, already cut with the salary of September arrives, while in others it will only happen in October, when it will be made the hits for the second half of September. That is, there will be a double pay cut.
The law establishing remuneration reductions between 3.5% and 10% in earnings over 1500 euro gross was posted on Friday Gazette and enters into force on Saturday. Wage cuts also have immediate effects. “The salary reduction provided for in Article 2 in force in the year 2014 from the date of entry into force of this law,” said Law 75 / in 2014, approved in Parliament on 2 September .
When questioned by PUBLIC, an official source at the Ministry of Finance has clarified that “due to its procedural complexity, some staff will be hit on new changes already reflected in September while others, whose processes have been completed, see their situation corrected in October. ” Typically, the processing of salaries in the state occurs between the 10th and 15th of each month, so the services which has now only gave money order in October may apply the measure.
This is the case of schools and services of the Ministry of Education. Publico official source of guardianship Nuno Crato clarified that the cuts will occur “in the next month, with the proper arrangements.” In the specific case of schools, Filinto Lima, vice president of the National Association of Clusters and Public Schools, explained that salaries are processed until the 8th of each month, unusually this month the deadline was extended to 10, and only in the October cuts are applied.
PUBLIC questioned the Ministries of Health, Social Security and defense, but was not given any indication about when workers are faced with cuts.
In public companies, law enforcement will also vary. In Rails, the salary will be paid since September with the court, something that should also occur in REFER company that generates the Portuguese rail network, which intends to pay salaries this month already with the new cuts. The Roads of Portugal does not comment because the subject of “company policy”, but the PUBLIC knows that the company will not proceed to court in October. Also the group could not Transtejo Friday “to ensure that the pay cuts will be implemented already in the current month of September.” CP in the law is being examined and then take a stand.
Measure “no end in sight”
This disparity was expected by unions, who criticize the double cut that will subject workers in October. Joseph Abraham, the Union of Civil Servants (Sintap), warns that “the rush of the Government” translated “in a mess”. “We have workers in September to receive cuts, others uncut and still receive workers receive the salary of October already cut which adds cutting for September,” anticipates. One concern that is shared by Ana Avoila, coordinator of the Common Front, a measure that condemns “no end in sight.”
The so-called pay cuts of Socrates (first introduced in 2011) were recovered by the current government after the Constitutional Court had flunked a norm of the state budget for 2014 that aggravated the reductions in salaries and that was in force during the first five months of the year. During this period, the cuts would range between 2.5% and 12% for earnings above 675 euros gross.
In late May, the judges of Ratton Palace declared unconstitutional measure, which forced the executive to pay the salaries of civil servants in full since that time and until the entry into force of the law published on Friday. According to the budget execution July, increasing 5.8% of consolidated central government expenditure was mainly a result of the replacement of wages.
The law that takes effect Saturday also provides that these cuts are reversed by 20% starting in January next year, as well as integration of all state employees in the single salary scale, something that the Government intended to take effect in early 2015 with Raquel Almeida belt
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