As of Saturday, July 1, The National Senate will launch a voluntary retirement plan. Aimed at employees who are over 60 years old in the case of men and 55 in the case of women. Among the requirements is giving up the status of permanent plant worker.
The information is circulating in WhatsApp groups of Senate employees and consists of two files, one that mentions resolution 412/2023 signed by María Laura “Luchi” Alonso, administrative secretary of the Senate, which would give the legal framework for the implementation in march of “Early retirement plan prior to retirement”.
Among the comments that emerge from the WhatsApp groups of the Senate The suspicion that the retirement plan has the purpose of incorporating militants of Kirchnerism to the Permanent Plant flies over, because the budget item is already assigned for this 2023. At the end of the year, Cristina Kirchner will conclude her term as president of the Senate and they do not see it with the intention of facing an adjustment in the last 6 months of the year.
At the moment The Senate personnel list has 2,814 employees on a permanent basis and 1,845 on a temporary basis. When personnel withdraw from the permanent plant, the possibility of adding new employees to that category opens.
benefited.
They can only access the benefit, permanent staff who have the years of service necessary to obtain their retirement. The benefit consists of “to receive an amount equivalent to the usual and permanent remuneration plus an additional 10%, for a period of up to 5 years. It does not have a discount for earnings, nor for a retirement contribution, therefore, in practice, the withdrawal contains an increase in out-of-pocket income. The withdrawal will be permanently updated by parities”, informs the internal document of the Senate. The withdrawal will be open from July 1 to August 31, 2023.