Executive has S / 1,002 million for collective bargaining

The Executive has S/ 1,002 million of fiscal space to finance in 2023 the implementation of collective bargaining in the State, according to the final report on the situational status of the Financial Administration of the Public Sector, prepared by the Ministry of Economy and Finance ( FEM).

However, according to the same report, the declared cost registered –as of January 30 of this year– regarding the orders of the workers with economic impact according to negotiable matters exceeds S/ 99,944 million, out of a total of 165 requests for a collective agreement project.

To detail, S/ 10,742 million of the state-owned requests correspond to the centralized level and S/ 89,202 million to the decentralized level.

Shirley Quino, a labor specialist at the Payet, Rey, Cauvi y Pérez study, pointed out that since the costs of the workers’ requests are much higher than the fiscal space that the State has, many negotiations could not be carried out and, on the contrary, they would go to labor arbitration.

”What we are probably going to have are requests from the workers that will not be in accordance with the expense that each entity can assume and that this can later end up in court cases”, the expert said.

Problems

It is important to mention that the report in question is key because the entities They must take it into account when implementing the collective bargaining processes for salary improvements that will govern from the year 2023.

For Lily Ku, general secretary of the Ombudsman’s Office union, this fiscal space that is available affects entities that require resources from the MEF to specify their requests with economic impact.

Likewise, he warned that observations are already being made on the claims documents of the unions, thus hampering collective bargaining.

“When you enter the negotiation and you find yourself with these economic ceilings, again you are going to generate that the negotiations end up being resolved in the arbitration stage”, Ku stated.

June 30 is the deadline for reaching an agreement between workers and public entities.

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Discomfort. Lily Ku He also criticized the fact that centralized negotiation is carried out by the trade union confederations, since they do not have much representation of public workers.