As a result of the recent announcements made by the national government in relation to economic adjustments in salary material, union coalitions, unions and lawyers have agreed that this decree signed early on May 2 “is totally discriminatory.”
Edgar Silva, national coordinator of pensioners and retireesasserts that this announcement leaves thousands of pensioners earning only the 130 bolívares decreed as the minimum wage in March 2023, which at that time was 30 dollars and is now barely 5.20, according to the current rate of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV).
“Because I tell you that we pensioners were discriminated against, for the simple reason that those 20 dollars that the government announces as a economic war It only impacts the elderly who are registered in the Patria System”.
In addition, Silva emphasizes that he is aware that the homeland system stops paying the “Economic War” bonds to pensioners who have had to leave the country for a certain period of time, “that is, those people who have traveled for three months, stop receiving the bonus for that time, which is a It shows more of the discrimination that exists in the country.”
Jose Elias Torres secretary general in charge of Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) agrees with Silva on the “labor discrimination” made by the president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, because the experience that public administration workers have had with the “Economic War Bonds” is that some do get it, while others others not.
Torres says that this announcement on May 1st surprised all the workers, because although a large increase in the minimum wage was not expected, there were expectations with a starting adjustment, which over time could be coupled to the established in article 91 of the Constitution of Venezuela.
It is for this reason that the representative of the CTV He says that these announcements, in addition to being in violation of Venezuelan laws, “is a death sentence” for just over five million pensioners, and in turn a “kick to the tripartite table.”
Feasible indexing in time?
The president of the Lara State College of Economists and the highest representative of Fedecámaras Lara, Joaquin Añez and Pablo Chirinos, respectively, agreed that this measure is not very feasible over time, because the world is currently experiencing a inflation wave, then it would not be a 100% safe bet.
At that point, José Elías Torres said that the indexing In the future, what it could bring is an economic contraction, because businessmen would stop investing in Venezuela, which is why he insists that the right thing to do would be to achieve a balance with specific policies on the part of the BCV.
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The entry Union and trade union coalitions: May 1st is a “discriminatory adjustment” was first published in El Informador Venezuela.
2023-05-02 20:59:13
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