▲ On July 12, workers from the Judiciary protested against the reform.Photo by Jose Antonio Lopez
Gustavo Castillo Garcia
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, July 20, 2024, p. 12
On July 10, the leader of the Union of Workers of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (STPJF), Jesús Gilberto González Pimentel, achieved that the plenary session of those who make up the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF) unanimously approved an “extraordinary retirement program that goes from 25 to 50 percent of the resources they have in the Individualized Reserve Fund (Fori), a savings mechanism for the retirement of base employees. This benefit extends to all base workers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) and also of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF).
Members of the CJF revealed that González Pimentel met with each of the councilors and asked them to approve the withdrawal of resources arguing that the cost of living has risen too much, and that it is no longer enough to cover their needs, especially their housing commitments.
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This mechanism, which until 2006 was called individual separation insurance, is given to permanent workers once they finish their employment, via retirement or resignation.
There are two cases that were considered extraordinary and in which a similar mechanism had been approved so that the base employees of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF) had resources to resolve some economic contingency, the covid-19 pandemic and the effects of the hurricane Otis.
On July 10, the STPJF issued a statement to its members informing them that “with the purpose of providing support to the family economy and the life projects of public servants incorporated into the Fori, the CJF launched, for the only time without setting a precedent, an extraordinary retirement program from the Fori.
Public servants interested in having access to this program have until October 31, 2024 to process a partial withdrawal of their individual accumulated balance at the Directorate of Institutional Benefits.
Gonzalez Pimentel reported.
One day later, the CJF issued circular DGSP 02/2024 in which it announced the requirements for the withdrawal of the Fori, which in its fifth point specifies: Public servants may withdraw, according to their choice, twenty-five (25) or fifty (50) percent of the individual accumulated balance reflected in their Fori Informative Report.
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In addition, the sixth point states that “payment of applications with the status of ‘Authorized Rescue’ in Sifori will begin on September 2, and subsequently at weekly intervals according to the order of priority of the assigned folio.”
The guidelines of the Fori plan establish that, from March 27, 2006, what was previously called individual life insurance would be called by that name.
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of the instrument “is to promote savings and provide financial support for public servants at the operational level (…) until they rejoin, where appropriate, the labor market in the event of their separation from public service, regardless of the cause.”
The savings fund is established with ordinary contributions of 2 percent of the salary that is deducted for this purpose via payroll to public servants, and contributions in the same percentage and amount
carry out the various instances of the PJF.
