The consensus with unions, which we have been building for years, benefits the employees, says deputy spokeswoman for PiS, head of the social policy and family committee, Urszula Rusecka. As she added, the committee wants to work out solutions from the agreement between the government and “Solidarity” before the end of the term.
On Wednesday, an agreement was signed in Stalowa Wola between the government and NSZZ “Solidarity”, which covers, among other things, pensions, subsidies, salaries and the functioning of trade unions. The government side was represented by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and the trade union side was represented by NSZZ “Solidarity” chairman Piotr Duda.
The answer to the demands
Rusecka stressed in an interview with PAP that the agreements between the government and “Solidarity” meet the demands of workers and unions.
These were also the areas we were trying to signal, and some of the topics we had already started but not finished as we were waiting to see what would be in these schemes
– she said.
It is good if the projects of MPs have a positive opinion of the government, because then it is coherent, there are resources for it. Because this is all about spending budgetary resources and we are waiting for these bills to be turned into law, probably in collaboration with our deputies, to work out these solutions before the end of this term
– emphasized the head of the committee on social policy and family.
I hope that these provisions will be implemented in this legislature
she added.
Rusecka pointed out that the PiS government is a government where social responsibility and the role of the employee are important.
This is a balanced operation
she noted.
On the one hand care for the employee, but also responsibility for the budget
she added.
This consensus with the trade unions, which we have been building for years, benefits the employees
– emphasized the PiS MP.
The case of bridging pensions
The parties have agreed, among other things, that bridging pensions will no longer be phased out. There will be a special regulation for the protection of trade union activists in employment law matters. The annual income expense deduction limit for membership fees paid to unions in the tax year is increased.
The agreement also provides for the exclusion of the compensation for special employment conditions that the employee owes for performing work in a particularly stressful or particularly harmful to health form from the catalog of remuneration components that are taken into account when calculating the amount of the compensation. minimum wage.
It was decided that nursing homes will be co-financed in 2023 with an amount of PLN 300 million, intended to co-finance the payment of wage supplements for employees of these institutions, it was also decided that the amortization for the Social Benefits Fund (ZFŚS) would be thawed, and this included, among other things, an increase in salaries in the sphere of the state budget through an increase in the fund for the payment of additional benefits, and, for example, special awards for teachers on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the National Education Commission , in the amount of PLN 900. Their cost is about PLN 765 million.
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Source: wPolityce
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