Given the rising cost of living, Congress seeks to ensure that the minimum pension for ONP retirees is on par with the minimum vital remuneration (RMV).
The initiative, presented by non-group congressman Jaime Quito Sarmiento, is based on the need to provide a dignified old age to Peruvians at the end of their working career and after 20 years of contributions. A maximum period of three years is established to carry out the leveling.
Likewise, it sets a permanent contribution rate for the employer, which will not affect the payment that the worker will receive or his or her pension contribution. In the case of the mypesthe employer contribution will not be more than 50% of the general employer contribution rate.
The text from Quito Sarmiento reveals that in the last Governments the minimum pension has not been raised, to such an extent that the adjustment of S/85 – with which the current S/500 was reached – given in 2019 is insufficient to meet the basic needs of pensioners.
He also recalled that the Constitutional Court (TC) ordered since the year before the pandemic that Congress and the Executive They have to promote the progressive increase in the various pension regimes, but to date there has been contempt or refusal to comply with the ruling.
The administration of Dina Boluarte He promised in the middle of last year to raise the minimum pension in the ONP to S/600, and even assured that it was a priority. Several moons later, does not materialize and the adjustment to the proposal has even been conditioned of pension reform that they sent to Congress.
They ask to talk
On February 21, hundreds of union bases from the public and private sectors marched nationwide demanding that the Boluarte regime comply with increasing pensions and raising the minimum wage, as well as respecting the right to collective bargaining.
Last January, Victorhugo Montoya, head of the ONPtold this newspaper last January that in recent years the standard of living has been harmed by inflation, which is why it is sensible to “permanently catch up on the amount of pensions.”
From the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), accuses the Government of opposing the increase in the RMV and pensions despite the recession, which is why “it is unattainable to afford the basic consumer basket.” This situation is aggravated considering the “already precarious income of workers and pensioners.”
Since his arrival at the Ministry of Labor, Minister Daniel Maurate has opted for silence, despite popular clamor. Maurate has stated that although there is a commitment to raise the RMV, “it is complicated” by the economic recession.
“There has been no (approach to the workers). Now him Ministry of Labor “It is taken by businessmen in all directions and leadership,” the general secretary of the CGTP, Gerónimo López, told La República.
It is worth noting that The labor front asks that the minimum wage rise to S/2,025since the current S/1,025 “have suffered an enormous devaluation” —according to Gustavo Minaya, deputy general secretary of the CGTP—.
“Today we cannot go directly to S/2,025, but a progressive adjustment is required that should not drop below S/200 annually towards the next five years; And this amount is a subsistence basket. With the salary of S/1,025 we are below all the thresholds,” Minaya stressed.
Source: Larepublica
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