The wage cuts in the public sector come into effect on Saturday, at a time when the processing of salaries is already underway a few days ago. Therefore, the reductions between 3.5% and 10% will be applied at different times: some employees feel the cut when they receive the salary of September, while in October only other summer compensation decrease, when it will be made the hits for the second half of September.
Confirmation was given on the afternoon of Friday by the Ministry of Finance. Asked by PUBLIC, an official source recalls 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” .
Normally the processing of salaries in the state occurs between the 10th and 15th of each month for the services which has now only gave money order in October may apply the measure.
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 75/2014, approved in parliament on September 2.
Joseph Abraham, director of the Union of Civil Servants (Sintap), warns that “the rush of the Government” will translate into “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 is shared by Ana Avoila, coordinator of the Common Front, a measure that condemns “no end in sight.”
For Abraham, the situation was “preventable”, noting that “the initial proposal of the Regulation provided that the cuts only came into force on the first day of the month following publication seguinta Gazette . “
The so-called pay cuts of Socrates (first introduced in 2011, still in executive José Sócrates) 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 Government introduced cuts 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 now published. 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 also provides that these cuts are reversed in 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.
On Thursday, discussed in the Executive Council of Ministers of the new table supplements the civil service, but the degree was not approved. The objective here is to harmonize the salary supplements paid in the state.
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