Conrad Ramos, director of the National Civil Service Office (ONSC)appeared before the Budget Commission integrated with the Treasury in the Chamber of Deputies, and He starred in a crossroads with the Front Amplista representative Bettiana Díazby “special compensation” at the ONSC. The deputy pointed out “the delivery discretionary” of “the special compensation for special functions” that was created in the Rendering of Accounts sent in 2021. Ramos argued that it was something that “I was already illegally paying the ONSC” since past administrations and that the current one “transparented“.
“I would like it to be specified a little more”said the deputy, because the mention of “illegal payments” was recorded in the shorthand version you accessed The Observer.
“Tracking the article 48 of the Rendering of Accounts approved last year – you will surely remember it – in the object of expenditure the special compensation for special functions was created —explained Díaz—, an item that at that time was not paidit had no cost. We did not know if it was going to be zero weight or how much“recalled the deputy.
“Indeed, when one reviews the object of expenditure, there is execution by the ONSChe added. one of the contradictions with which we meet. We are talking about the fact that for the entire Presidency Paragraph there is an execution, at current values, of $195 million in special compensation“, held.
“With this such a firm position that the director of the Office has with respect to ending the discretionary delivery of compensationas he publicly stated yesterday (Monday July 11), for example, I would like to know how this game created in article 48 has been executed by the ONSC”, said the deputy.
Ramos answered. “It is a special compensation to pay greater responsibility. It was for that. Then, it is not a new compensation, but it refers to that greater responsibility that the ONSC had already been paying illegally”Ramos said. According to the director, “there was no rule that protected that payment”, “then, it was made transparent and it was put into the norm that, effectively, greater responsibility was being paid”.
Díaz returned to the mention of “illegality” and asked Ramos to “specify it a little more.” “When they refer to the illegality of payment for this object of expenditure, I would like it to be specified a little more, because there was talk of illegal payments and it was recorded in the stenographic version,” the legislator said.
“I said illegally, not pejoratively, but in the sense that it had no supporting norm. That is illegal; something that has no supporting normRamos argued.
Ramos also indicated, at Diaz’s request, that in terms of spending “the monthly average of the greatest responsibility is $640,000.”
“It doesn’t give me a monthly average of $640,000 Diaz replied, “Really, it’s close to double, but I’m going to leave the record.” “$7,746,173,000 is the amount that appears as executed to date, not as allocated for the entire year”added the legislator.
In any case, he stated that he was not going to “discuss it further”. “Because we are receiving answers that are not clear. That they send us the regulations that article 48 requires from January 1 for the payment of compensation, to know With what criteria were almost $ 8,000,000 paidfor 156 officials that the ONSC has: 142 officials and 12 as non-officials,” he said.
“Plus the 80 or 90 passes in commission,” Ramos said. “I repeat: It is not that it is distributed among 150 officialsis distributed among many more people, but I have nothing more to add about it”, he finished.
On the other hand, the director explained that in addition to making the amount transparent, They took away from all the workers – who had it – the “greatest responsibility”. “Which was not easy, because they had already been collecting it discretionally for years. So, we made a proration by management and we gave an amount to each manager so that they had that, since they are the ones who are in contact. The idea was not to maintain the habit of going to ask the head of the section or the director of the executing unit to please give them greater responsibility. That was the traditional custom. We gave it to the managers who are the ones who have prorated the money so that they could arrange together with the managers how to allocate this greater responsibility among your collaboratorsRamos explained.
“If you ask me what I think of the greater responsibility, I think it should be replaced by management commitments“, said the director of the ONSC.
