Amid The resistance of the deputies of integrating the plenary and know an alleged initiative to reduce the salary, the Board of Directors, chaired by Nery Ramos, by majority he chose to grant an economic benefit to the workers of the legislative body; A unique payment that will be disbursed in the next few days to at least two thousand workers.
In Act 37-2025 of the Board of Directors of the Congress, to which it has had access Free pressa bonus of Q3 thousand was authorized for each congress worker hired under lines 011 and 022. The document records the session of April 2 and it is ordered that this month the benefit must be paid.
In order for Congress to respond financially to the new bonus for its employees, the Board of Directors in the same session, recorded in literal F of the aforementioned act, approved a Budget modification of Q6 million 582 thousand to allow the delivery of the bonus.
The new bond for Congress workers happens after the directive knew a request from the Workers’ Union of the Congress of the Republic (Sintracor), one of the two union representations of the legislative employees. The majority of congress managers approved that the bonus requested by the trade unionists be delivered.
This Wednesday, April 9, this media consulted the Department of Social Communication of Congress on the delivery of the bond to the workers of Parliament, however and despite the fact that the Board of Directors was already turned on for the budget modification and the disbursement before the end of the monthThey replied that “there was no official information.”
Nay
The decision of the Board of Directors of the Congress of the New Bonus for its staff was not unanimous. Deputy Juan Carlos Rivera, from the Victoria bench, reasoned his vote against.
Rivera points out that although he values the work of the team of workers of the Congress, the current conditions made such a prebender.
“My disagreement is based on principles of social responsibility and austerity. Although, I recognize and value the work of legislative employees, I consider that in the current context that our country lives this type of decisions must be made with greater social responsibility and a approach to rationalization of public spending,” says Rivera in the reasoning of their vote.
The deputy currently occupies the third secretariat of the Board of Directors of the Congress and He also opposed the salary of deputies, approved in the same instance.