For former Social Security workers, the institution itself lowered their employer pensions. They feel their rights have been violated.
This February 16, 2022, ex-workers of the IESS who retired before 2015 made a manifestation outside the building Constitutional court (DC). Elderly people from several provinces came to the protest to demand the annulment of Resolution 476 issued by the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security. They said that with that document they took away 75% of their employer retirement.
This income is received apart from the general retirement pension to which they are entitled as any person who retires from a job after working 20 years or more in a company or institution.
Victoria Rodríguez, president of the September 18 Association, said that they demand what is fair: that the employer pension received by those who retired before 2015. He assured that having reduced the employer pension It is a setback on their rights.
Carlos Chuquitarco recounts his case: he worked for 33 years as a clerk in the IESS. He retired in 2008 with a employer pension of $1,500. In 2015, with Resolution 476, he began to receive $900.
Among the demonstrators were nursing assistants, cleaning staff from hospitals such as Carlos Andrade Marín, and former administrative collaborators from hospitals in the IESS of provinces.
The process is in the support stage in the Constitutional court. The IESS retirees They complained that the process has been stalled for three years. And that in the meantime, several of his companions have died without once again receiving the employer’s pension that they say was theirs by law. (GVL)
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