On Monday, unions are anticipated to announce extra escalating measures
A piece stoppage on the time of the central information bulletin subsequent Friday, July 12, the RIK unions have determined, with a purpose to pay the pension advantages to staff who’ve retired beneath the brand new pension plan.
On Monday, the unions are anticipated to announce additional escalating measures, which can in all probability have an effect on this system of the weekend of July 13 and 14, together with the screening of the Euro remaining.
Talking to KYPE, Nikos Grigoriou, CEO of SIDIKEK-PEO, mentioned that in a press convention held at midday on Friday, the three guilds of RIK, EURIK and SYTYRIC – OHO SEC and SIDIKEK PEO, knowledgeable that from December 2022 which has the brand new pension plan for workers within the public and wider public sector is handed and applied, eight everlasting workers at RIK have retired and haven’t acquired their pension proper arising from the regulation. Amongst them, there may be an worker who has been ready for 18 months for his pension to be paid.
“The issue is that whereas the RIK has despatched all of the accessible data in its possession, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of the Inside haven’t succeeded along with the RIK find a golden ratio to pay the rights. It’s a contractual obligation of the state to the employees to pay them their pension,” he mentioned.
Mr. Grigoriou added that the RIK guilds have been extraordinarily affected person and have proven nice accountability all these 18 months and have given all of the leeway that may be given. “Nevertheless, we’re pressured to take measures as a result of the state's contractual obligation to pension doesn’t apply.”
“We don’t settle for that any worker doesn’t obtain their contractual rights, particularly their pension, which can be an asset. That’s the reason we’re pressured to proceed with strike measures”, he famous.
As he mentioned, beginning on Friday, July 12, the primary newscast time, 8pm-9pm, shall be a piece stoppage, which means no program shall be broadcast. “On the similar time, we’re learning and shall be introduced on Monday different measures that can escalate and it’s potential that they may also have an effect on the broadcasts of Saturday and Sunday, July 13 and 14, together with the published of the EURO remaining,” he mentioned.
The CEO of SIDIKEK mentioned that the employees don’t wish to take the measures, they don’t want the folks to undergo. “We wish the Authorities and the RIK to know that it should cope with and resolve the issue by Friday. If he desires to, he can do it. It should additionally respect the labor and authorized rights of individuals and their dignity that has been instilled in all of them this time,” he famous.
Answering whether or not the impediment is introduced by RIK or the Ministries, he mentioned that regardless of the lengthy delay noticed by RIK, some strikes have been made, which it appears that evidently the Ministry of Finance considers inadequate. “We don't know who is true and flawed, who’s accountable and who will remedy it. We’re serious about it being resolved and that is what the state owes,” he mentioned, noting that, if crucial, the Presidency must also cope with the matter.
For his half, Andreas Ilias, CEO of OHO-SEK, informed KYPE that “in RIK we’re confronted with an unprecedented phenomenon. Staff after a few years of service to retire and to not rationally evolve the efficiency of their pension advantages”. It’s typical, he mentioned, that an worker retired from service in January 2023 and the efficiency of his pension advantages remains to be pending, creating dwelling issues and interfering with the monetary planning of every retiree.
“It’s unprecedented by way of the method of implementing the laws for the brand new pension of 2022 that procedural failures and weaknesses have been recognized, in relation to the information introduced to the Particular Fund that was established and is remitted to pay pensions and pension rights,” he mentioned. Mr. Ilias.
He added that the identical remedy shall be given to each new worker who retires from the RIK. “This has created intense resentment and anger amongst staff, main them, after many makes an attempt, to resolve to take motion beginning subsequent Friday, 12/7,” it mentioned.
Mr. Ilias referred to as on all these concerned, initially the RIK, the Minister of Inside and the Minister of Finance, beneath whose supervision the Particular Fund operates, to intervene with a purpose to discover a answer. “It’s not our goal to take measures and inconvenience the residents. However we can’t flip a blind eye and never react to such capital points for retirement and a dignified dwelling for retirees,” he famous.
He described it as “unthinkable” that the truth that the mandatory recruitment and payroll information for some years don’t exist and that this can be a cause for pension advantages to not be awarded comes as an impediment. “It was not the worker's accountability to maintain these particulars. Quite the opposite, the employees, when referred to as, offered information from the Social Insurance coverage Fund for the contributions made by the RIK for them, for his or her remuneration, in addition to information from the Earnings Tax and from their very own information, with a purpose to doc their employment in RIC.
He clarified that the RIK lacks information earlier than 2003, there are not any clear employment letters of the employees in lots of recordsdata. “It creates a tangle, an issue of how pensions might be calculated and paid. The regulation supplies methods out”, he mentioned, noting that it’s the RIK's accountability to analyze and make clear the precise points, to present clear positions to the Particular Fund, with a purpose to calculate and assign everybody's rights.
He additionally mentioned that RIK cooperated with an actuary, who is similar because the one the state cooperates with. Primarily based on the information introduced earlier than him, calculations have been made and submitted to the RIK. “Allow them to be utilized by all concerned with a purpose to present an answer”, he mentioned, noting that for every case a correct investigation should be completed, all the mandatory information should be obtained and pensions might be calculated primarily based on the laws.
“The indignity in dwelling can’t be triggered by shortcomings, weaknesses of a public regulation group”, concluded Mr. Ilias.
