The employees of the House of Pensions in the country are protesting, as of 8.30 am. on Tuesday, against working conditions and salary cuts, said the president of the National Federation of Social Solidarity in the Labour Field, affiliated with the National Trade Union Bloc (BNS), Ionut Marinescu.
According to him, the protests will continue all week, every morning, for approximately two hours.
"Among the dissatisfactions are the working conditions at the House of Pensions and the salary cuts. We have no IT applications, we have no headquarters, no offices. There are 10-12 people in one office, compared to a maximum of 4-5 people. We have been protesting all week. We want to sound the alarm. At the House of Pensions, salaries are among the lowest in the budgetary system," Ionut Marinescu told AGERPRES.
He underscored that he does not rule out the possibility of a general strike if these demands are not met.
The MIPE "Normalitate" Trade Union, which represents employees of the Ministry of Investments and European Projects, will also organise a protest in front of the institution on Tuesday.
The trade union, also affiliated with the BNS, informed on Monday that it had sent a letter to prominent members of the European Commission drawing attention to the "risks regarding the administrative capacity to manage European funds in the context of promoting legislative measures to reduce the remuneration of the personnel involved."
The union demands the maintenance of the current level of remuneration for the staff involved in the management and control of European funds and implicitly the elimination from the draft law on some fiscal-budgetary measures of all articles targeting this category, as well as the creation of a distinct status and occupational family within the framework of the future Salary Law, assumed by Romania as a milestone in the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan), for the recognition of this distinct category of staff, of its skills, role and contribution to the economic and social development of Romania.
In fact, MIPE employees protested, last week, in the lobby of the ministry and, later, in Victoriei Square, against the austerity measures announced by the Government, which halve the income of specialists in the institution.
The draft law on fiscal-budgetary measures, assumed on Monday in Parliament by the Bologna Government, provides, among other things, for the limitation, from up to 50%, to up to 35%, of the salary increase granted to personnel from public institutions and/or authorities nominated in project teams financed from non-reimbursable European funds and/or reimbursable external funds, as well as to those involved in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism.
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