A month and a half has passed since the Executive Power and five public sector union confederations signed the Centralized Collective Agreement 2023-2024. The document included the delivery of a bonus of S/600 to the workers and was to be made effective in July, according to the proposal of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). However, to date, the delivery of this money has not materialized. In this note we tell you what the workers say and what is needed to make this subsidy operational.
What does the MEF say about the payment of the S/600 bond?
In an interview to The Republicthe Minister of Economy, Alex Contreras Miranda, specified that the payment of this extraordinary bonus will be subject to the approval of a supplementary credit that will be requested from the Congress of the Republic in two weeks, that is, between August 20 to 26.
“We are going to send it in this supplementary credit to the CongressI calculate a maximum of two weeks, so that this payment can be made,” he said.
The head of the MEF added that together with the prime minister, Alberto Otárola, they met with the new board of directors of the Legislative, where various topics were discussed, including the S/600 subsidy and the congressmen showed openness on the subject.
What do public sector workers say about the delay?
Last Tuesday, August 8, the workers who signed the Centralized Collective Agreement sent a letter to the head of the MEF to express their discomfort at the double failure to deliver the subsidy, since a regulation with the force of law has not been issued that authorizes its disbursement and the deadline for it to start with the payment has already passed.
“It is a pleasure to go to your office to send you the cordial greetings of the CITE-Unasse-CTE-Conasep and Confetep Expanded State Unity Coalition, and at the same time express the enormous labor unrest of 562,000 public servants due to the mockery of the Ministry of Economy regarding non-payment of exceptional bonus of S/600which should have been paid last July,” they said.
For workers, making payment possible through a Supplementary Credit Bill violates the signed agreement, since the commitment was to approve a rule with the force of law, which is usually a more agile path and would allow payment to be made in a shorter period. For this reason, they urged the Government to reconsider the way in which the bond will be approved and they warned that from August 22 to 24 they would begin days of protests if they continued to fail to comply with the agreements.
Source: Larepublica
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