“If we can only get sick 12 months out of the year, then why are we deducting 3.5% from our salary 14 times?” This is how thousands of GNR soldiers and PSP agents are challenging the parliamentary leadership – with a majority of PS and abstentions from PSD and IL – in three similar bills submitted by BE, PCP and Chega, which intended to correct this “injustice”. ” in GNR and PSP Sickness Assistance Services (SAD) discounts. The trade unions of the two security officials guarantee that “this is not an over fight” and remind that the conclusion of the Accounts Chamber of 2019 supports them.
Thousands of euros are at stake, with more than 40,000 employees contributing monthly, as well as vacation and Christmas benefits. 3.5% of the salary goes to finance the health care costs of police officers and some immediate family members. “We are obligated to give discounts, but we do not have a refund that would justify these amounts when we need medical care. With this money, we could buy first-class medical insurance, ”accuses the leader of the Association of Guards Professionals (APG / GNR), António Barreira. “SAD/GNR is an expensive subsystem, it is not a healthcare subsystem with a homogeneous territorial coverage, there are areas of the country where there are not even conventions, and specialties such as psychology, psychiatry, physiotherapy or nutrition are excluded,” the union leader adds.
Author: Joao Carlos Rodriguez
Source: CM Jornal
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