New labor conflict for the government and for the Minister of Social Security, Elma Saiz. Around 200 executives from National Institute of Social Security (INSS) They agreed to mobilize immediately in the face of “the progressive deterioration of their working conditions” and the service provided to citizens “due to staff reductions and the increase in workload”.
The group is preparing to launch a series of protest actions, including partial shutdowns or a strike, to demand solutions from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
In a press release published Monday, the provincial secretaries and deputy directors of the INSS regretted the critical situation that the organization is going through and denounced the lack of interest of the ministry to jointly address the necessary measures to guarantee the quality of the service.
In fact, they demanded a meeting with the minister to explain the situation of risk of collapse of pensions and to begin negotiations “which they have refused until now, despite the requests previously made”.
The changes that have taken place in the INSS in recent years have been of colossal importance at the regulatory, procedural and organizational level and have resulted in the taking of new powers in a dimension of significant scope, both for the organization and for its impact social, such as the management of the minimum living income; the complement of the gender gap and motherhood; ongoing regulatory developments in retirement pension matters; the control of sick leave and the assessment of disabilities, as well as the organization of work derived from outsourcing in the processing of benefits and the expansion of citizen service channels.
“These challenges and new responsibilities are being carried out by an aging and clearly reduced staff, with a list of jobs created more than 30 years ago, completely outdated to meet current demands,” officials explained.
In this context, the provincial secretaries and deputy directors of the INSS declared that they bear the responsibility of maintaining the efficiency and prestige of the institution with a structure of the last century.
“The circumstances exposed have been repeatedly transmitted to the political leaders of the ministry without having received any response to the proposed requests for improvement, with absolute contempt on the part of the minister and the Secretary of State for Social Security who have not didn’t even try to do it. remedy the situation reported,” they denounced.
The group of provincial directors of the INSS requests to be urgently received by the minister and the secretary of state. Otherwise, they are ready to undertake all types of mobilizations and actions, including partial strikes and strikes, with the aim of reversing the situation and obtaining express recognition of their work, so that the hand work and its resources are strengthened. commensurate with the responsibility they assume and the specialty and technical complexity of their functions.
