Kick forward. This week was the end of the deadline to adopt a solution, set for Friday June 17, but the Board has not been able to close an agreement with the Parliament’s workers with which to definitively put an end to licenses due to age, one of the issues that has most strained in recent times the relations between officials and politicians who live in the institution. Now the ball is sent to July 11. One more month for the negotiation, which, according to parliamentary sources, is already close to success.
After repealing licenses due to age for the future by eliminating article 79 of the Statute of the Internal Government Regime (ERGI), the file of those officials who had obtained the privilege of retiring at the age of sixty receiving the salary was pending. full, a prerogative that had caused social unrest at a time of serious economic crisis, but had not yet begun to enjoy it.
The Parliamentary Board has today taken a first step to get them out of the legal limbo in which they found themselves and has decided, in agreement with the institution’s human resources department, a change in working conditions that will materialize in the inclusion of two points new to the ERGI. The first will allow the voluntary leave of the officials and the second a reduction in working hours, both with an incentive that has yet to be specified.
These two new figures may be used by civil servants who wish, who may return to work under these new conditions. But it remains to be fixed, and that is why the one-month extension has been adopted in the negotiation with the Chamber’s staff council, the new general regime for Parliament’s workers after the repeal of age licenses. According to parliamentary sources, the will of the Table is to reach an agreement without impositions that is assumed without major conflict.
The agreements adopted today by the Table and endorsed by the extended Table in its function of control and supervision of the economic decisions of the Parliament, will be taken this week to the Institutional Affairs Commission (CAI), which is in charge of validating them. Meanwhile, negotiations between officials and politicians will continue to set the specific conditions of the substitute regime and put an end to one of the entrenched conflicts of this legislature in Parliament.
