Martin Pereyra, president of COFE, denounced that what the government intends by deducting 25% of the salary for certifications is “to make money with the health of the workers.”
The union was this Friday in the Senate Budget Committee and said that the situation is “alarming” due to the lack of personnel as a result of the validity of the Executive decree that establishes that only a third of the State vacancies may be occupied. .
Their representatives were opposed to the measures proposed in the Rendering of Accounts referred to medical licenses, since for Pereira “what is proposed, which is the discount of 25% of the salary, does not solve anything and the negotiation has not been respected collective”.
“We reached an agreement with the National Civil Service Office regarding the regularization of workers with precarious contracts, but this modification of the articles has not reached Parliament and that worries us. We put it to the commission since something should be done quickly because next week the Surrender would be voted on, ”the president of COFE indicated in the Senate.
According to Pereyra, according to the lawyer Daniel Ochs, “what is being voted on would be unconstitutional” in the Rendering of Accounts in relation to medical licenses, since “it is deducted directly from the salary, so it is not a subsidy as proposed. in Surrender.”
With this discount measure, it is intended to “make money with the health of the workers”, something with which COFE was against.
As a solution, Pereira expressed that it is necessary to generate more controls in reference to medical certifications and, at the same time, strengthen the Social Security Bank (BPS), since the organization itself, according to the president of COFE, has declared that “ He doesn’t know who the certifying doctors are.”
“Today a worker goes with any prescription from any mutualist, even if it is not his own, and it is certified the same, so there are many controls before reaching the salary discount.”
Although he agrees that abuses in medical licenses should end —and it is something that the Confederation has raised in different areas—, he considered that the solution is not through the discount to the worker. “The salary, when the worker is sick, is when he needs it most. And the worker who lies about the certifications is not only cheating the State, but is also failing to comply with his colleagues who have to do double the work,” Pereira said.
