Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Spare pension supplements in public companies – TVI24

The replacement of the payment of all pension supplements in the companies of the public sector State was published on Monday Official Gazette and enter immediately into force.



“It reset the payment of all pension supplements in companies in the public enterprise sector workers in active and former retirees, retired workers and other pensioners”

the law also says that “any changes to the system of pension supplements must be subject to collective bargaining.”

As the law “shall enter into force with the State Budget for 2016″ and this has been issued by the President, then it becomes effective immediately.

More than a hundred pensioners should then return to receive this year your pension in full , after two years of made cuts to the fulfillment of economic and financial adjustment program Portuguese state.

According to the industry trade unions, in some cases, these pension supplements amounted to 60 percent of the value of the retirement of workers, once they have been agreed in negotiations between workers and their respective administrations.

For the administrations of companies like Carris and Metropolitano de Lisboa, these agreements were intended to carry out a downsizing in assets and their part in passing to an early retirement – an alternative mechanism to payment of compensation.

Although retired repeatedly have claimed and stated that their supplements had been negotiated as an alternative to compensation in anticipation of the retirement age, the previous government decided yet, from 2014, apply these cuts payment of supplements in public companies registassem losses for at least three consecutive years.

At this time, they are in court over a hundred processes and according to the current executive, the total savings from the implementation of these cuts was never officially quantified.

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