The project includes a bonus of 200 thousand pesos, not taxable, for health workers, which was agreed with the unions this Monday.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 19:04 hrs.
This afternoon, the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies approved the readjustment to the public sector, a project that has now been sent to the Senate.
Most of the 91 articles were approved by 131 votes in favor and one against. in this group were the readjustment, bonuses and bonuses, among other matters. Later, in separate votes, the remaining articles were ratified with the exception of three regulations that were rejected: one to exempt certain officials from time control; another that limited the transfer of contract fees to four thousand workers; and the one that defined a recall system.
The initiative had been rejected on December 17, but through the constitutional mechanism of insistence, the Executive defended its text in the Senate, where it was approved and therefore returned to the Chamber for this new analysis.
The approval of the project required agreements, one of them had to do with the readjustment, where the Executive offered 2.7 percent for officials of gross salaries equal to or less than one million 500 thousand pesos and 0.8 for those who exceed that income.
However, after the talks, the Executive yielded and increased the section of 2.7 percent to income of 2 million gross pesos.
“In order to protect purchasing power, it has been achieved by increasing the cut from one and a half million to two million pesos and this implies that in 90 percent of public sector workers, at least in what they have to do with your remuneration, we will be able to protect your purchasing power. I think that is one of the tasks that had to guide this conversation and the approaches that have been produced from the dialogue ”, highlighted in the debate the Socialist deputy Manuel Monsalve.
In addition, the project includes a bonus of 200 thousand pesos, not taxable, for health workers, which was agreed with the unions this Monday.
During the first part of this day, the initiative had been questioned, since the bonus only considered contract and plant workers, leaving out those who joined the health area this year through fee agreements.
Faced with such debate, the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, promised that information about these workers will be collected so that outside this law they are recognized and receive the so-called COVID bonus.
In this regard, he pointed out: “What we have committed is, through the Ministry of Health, to collect this information from workers who are at least 7 months old, have a full-time job, and with that in hand once That information is raised, outside of that readjustment law, to be able to mobilize and make the contractual modifications, committing the resources of the case so that this bonus is paid. So I say publicly what I also said in the Finance Commission ”.
With this vote in favor of the project, it must now be reviewed by the Senate, a body in which it is also expected that after the agreements made, the result will be favorable.
This afternoon, the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies approved the readjustment to the public sector, a project that has now been sent to the Senate.
Most of the 91 articles were approved by 131 votes in favor and one against. in this group were the readjustment, bonuses and bonuses, among other matters. Then, in separate votes, the remaining articles were ratified with the exception of three regulations that were rejected: one to exempt certain officials from time control; another that limited the transfer of contract fees to four thousand workers; and the one that defined a recall system.
The initiative had been rejected on December 17, but through the constitutional mechanism of insistence, the Executive defended its text in the Senate, where it was approved and therefore returned to the Chamber for this new analysis.
The approval of the project required agreements, one of them had to do with the readjustment, where the Executive offered 2.7 percent for officials of gross salaries equal to or less than one million 500 thousand pesos and 0.8 for those who exceed that income.
However, after the talks, the Executive yielded and increased the section of 2.7 percent to income of 2 million gross pesos.
“In order to protect purchasing power, it has been achieved by increasing the cut from one and a half million to two million pesos and this implies that in 90 percent of public sector workers, at least in what they have to do with your remuneration, we will be able to protect your purchasing power. I think that is one of the tasks that this conversation and the rapprochements that have taken place from the dialogue had to guide ”, highlighted in the debate the socialist deputy Manuel Monsalve.
In addition, the project includes a bonus of 200 thousand pesos, not taxable, for health workers, which was agreed with the unions this Monday.
During the first part of this day the initiative had been questioned, since the bonus only considered contract and plant workers, leaving out those who joined the health area during this year through fee agreements.
Faced with such debate, the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, promised that information about these workers will be collected so that outside this law they are recognized and receive the so-called COVID bonus.
In this regard, he pointed out: “What we have committed is, through the Ministry of Health, to collect this information from workers who have at least 7 months of seniority, who have a full day, and with that in hand once That information is raised, outside of that readjustment law, to be able to mobilize and make the contractual modifications, committing the resources of the case so that this bonus is paid. So I say publicly what I also said in the Finance Commission ”.
With this vote in favor of the project, it must now be reviewed by the Senate, a body in which it is also expected that after the agreements made, the result will be favorable.
This afternoon, the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies approved the readjustment to the public sector, a project that has now been sent to the Senate.
Most of the 91 articles were approved by 131 votes in favor and one against. in this group were the readjustment, bonuses and bonuses, among other matters. Later, in separate votes, the remaining articles were ratified with the exception of three regulations that were rejected: one to exempt certain officials from time control; another that limited the transfer of contract fees to four thousand workers; and the one that defined a recall system.
The initiative had been rejected on December 17, but through the constitutional mechanism of insistence, the Executive defended its text in the Senate, where it was approved and therefore returned to the Chamber for this new analysis.
The approval of the project required agreements, one of them had to do with the readjustment, where the Executive offered 2.7 percent for officials of gross salaries equal to or less than one million 500 thousand pesos and 0.8 for those who exceed that income.
However, after the talks, the Executive yielded and increased the tranche from 2.7 percent to income of 2 million gross pesos.
“In order to protect purchasing power, it has been achieved by increasing the cut from one and a half million to two million pesos and this implies that in 90 percent of public sector workers, at least in what they have to do with your remuneration, we will protect your purchasing power. I believe that this is one of the tasks that this conversation and the rapprochements that have taken place from the dialogue had to guide ”, highlighted in the debate the socialist deputy Manuel Monsalve.
In addition, the project includes a bonus of 200 thousand pesos, not taxable, for health workers, which was agreed with the unions this Monday.
During the first part of this day, the initiative had been questioned, since the bonus only considered contract and plant workers, leaving out those who joined the health area this year through fee agreements.
Faced with such debate, the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, promised that information about these workers will be collected so that outside this law they are recognized and receive the so-called COVID bonus.
In this regard, he pointed out: “What we have committed is, through the Ministry of Health, to collect this information from workers who are at least 7 months old, have a full-time job, and with that in hand once That information is raised, outside of that readjustment law, to be able to mobilize and make the contractual modifications, committing the resources of the case so that this bonus is paid. So I say publicly what I also said in the Finance Commission ”.
With this vote in favor of the project, it must now be reviewed by the Senate, a body in which it is also expected that after the agreements made, the result will be favorable.
