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Finally the Senate decided not to vote this Wednesday on the bill that grants a salary readjustment to public sector workers, in addition to including various bonuses and allowances.
After an extensive debate in the Finance Committee, after 11:00 p.m. the proposal went to the Chamber, where the senators chose to close the session with an agreement to resume the discussion of the Government’s proposal early this Thursday, still in second process.
Specifically, they scheduled a Fully telematic session from 09:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m..
Since it did not have the comparator to vote on the readjustment to the public sector, the Senate is called for this Thursday 24, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for the same purpose.
Some hope that in the afternoon (of this December 24) the Chamber sessions for the third process.@Cooperative
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) Dec 24, 2020
Last week the Lower House rejected the idea of legislating the proposal, so the Government had to enter the insistence, which it did through the Senate, where it was analyzed throughout this Wednesday, in discussions that in principle should be until full dispatch.
The The Lower House expected that the Senate would dispatch the text today to also proceed to vote on it, however, the debate in the Finance Committee of the Upper House lasted throughout the afternoon.
Therefore, deputies They suspended the Sala session scheduled for today, because it was known in advance that the times would not reach, and They had already called an unpublished Christmas Eve for tomorrow Thursday, between 11:00 and 14:00; the agreement was before the Senate also decided to continue debating Thursday morning.
The Chamber adopted the agreement to meet tomorrow from 09:00 to 12:30 hours to vote on the project to readjust the public sector.
Then the text will pass @Camara_cl for your third process.
The session will be completely telematic and you can follow it in
👇👇👇https: //t.co/fHZ4EDJxja– SenadoChile (@Senado_Chile) Dec 24, 2020
INDICATIONS IN THE LONG DEBATE IN THE COMMISSION
The Senate Finance Committee began the debate around noon this Wednesday, which lasted throughout the afternoon and, mediated breaks, ended around 10:30 p.m., dispatching the bill to the Chamber with various modifications.
The report issued by the instance considers a phased readjustment for public administration workers and a special Covid-19 bonus for health personnel in the framework of the health emergency.
Also, contemplate another benefit from the end of the conflict for workers with salaries below 2 million pesos.
The Government also entered a series of indications, backed by the Commission’s senators: one of them establishes that the Ministry of Finance will report by January 31, 2021 how the Special Emergency Bonus for health workers will be delivered.
Likewise, the Treasury will inform as of January 31, 2021 on the staff who work in kindergartens and who will access the readjustment. Additionally, as of March 31, the Executive promised to present a bill in this line.
In addition, an agreement was drawn up regarding education assistants and for officials over 75 years of age.
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