Three banking unions demanded this Monday the payment of the complement for pensioners, announced by the Government for October, pointing out that retirees in the sector are not covered by the measures.
The titles were legally omitted, which ultimately leads us to conclude that retired bank employees will not be entitled to the extraordinary October pension”, Cristina Damião, from the management of Mais Sindicato, which is, together with the Sindicato of Central Banking Employees (SBC) and the Union of Workers of the Financial Sector of Portugal (SBN), one of the three authors of the joint statement sent to the newsrooms on Monday.
According to Cristina Damião, the unions want the Government to “legislate so that the measure is applied to all pensioners in the same way”.
“We have bank retirees whose pensions are paid entirely by bank pension funds, we have retirees who are partly paid by banks and partly by Social Security, and we have retirees […] from the age of 55, whose retirement is paid by banks. The Government was not careful to say that these workers are covered by the Government’s measures because it is a universal measure,” said Cristina Damião.
According to the union leader, it is the Government that must support the payment of this extraordinary measure.
We understand that the Government must do it. The measure is extraordinary, an extraordinary pension, and the banks, eventually, as private entities, will say that the Government has to define rules, which it did not do,” added the leader.
The unions have scheduled a meeting with the Labor Minister for Tuesday “to discuss this matter.”
In the statement released this Monday, Mais, SBC and SBN say that if the measures to mitigate inflation do not include bank retirees, the three unions “will not conform and will request the competent authorities the successive review of the constitutionality of the legislative package before the Constitutional Court”.
Source: Observadora
