The National Union of Police Officers and Contract Staff demands a 30% increase in the basic salary of contract staff and mentions that the basic salary of most of these employees is, on average, at the minimum level on economy.
„We return to some of the problems that we have officially reported to you several times in the last two years, and we remind you that the Interior Ministry (MAI) employees, but especially those with an extremely precarious salary, below the level of the ‘minimum daily shopping basket’, we refer to the contractual staff, in the number of approx. 6,000 employees – there are still major grievances, generated by the discriminatory or delayed granting of economic-financial rights, working conditions, etc.,” reads an open letter from the trade unionists to Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.
The Federation of the National Union of Police Officers and Contract Staff (FSNPPC) points out that the optimal functioning of all central and territorial units subordinated to the Interior Ministry depends to a considerable extent on the contribution of contract staff, who carry out basic or auxiliary activities, as the case may be, with direct and sustainable involvement in the efficiency of the missions and activities carried out by the MAI for the benefit of the State and citizens.
Among the demands of the FSNPPC are the inclusion and allocation of contractual personnel to all the rights provided for in GD no. 1198/2022 „on the transport rights, on the national territory, of the personnel of the institutions of defence, public order and national security,” including the settlement of transport for rest leave; the granting of seniority/fidelity/grading bonus according to the actual number of years worked by each employee; granting „special” working conditions to all contractual staff; updating, in payment, the food allowance for all MAI employees and updating, in payment, the financial bonuses/allowances at the level of current salaries for all MAI employees.
The trade unionists point out that, if the demands are not resolved as soon as possible, they reserve the right to organise protest actions, including the initiation of a legal labour conflict at the level of contractual staff of the Interior Ministry, which may lead to a general strike.
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