Teachers and health workers revolt against the Consell for non-payment of payroll and the extra Covid

• Covid Puig announces an extra pay for toilets before the end of the year for the effort in the pandemic

After more than a year and a half of pandemic in which the Valencian Government has raved about the health and teaching community for their dedication throughout this time, the malaise among public employees begins to surface. And for a matter as basic as payrolls which, if in the case of teachers accumulate multiple delays, in the case of health workers they have not always been completed with the pay extra covid fiancee.

After the collection of the November payroll, the teachers’ unions have warned this week that the Ministry of Education accumulates delays and defaults that, in the case of many teachers, have been repeating since the beginning of the year. “Many teachers of the concerted who have started working this course have not yet received and others have not received the updates that correspond to them, “explain sources from the FSIE union, which does not rule out taking action against the Administration.

The Generalitat’s problems when it comes to paying salaries to teaching staff are specified in most cases in cuts in payroll which, in practice, may mean that at least 100 or 200 euros are not paid. However, these delays can be aggravated to the point that there are teachers who have not received anything since the course started. “Defaults are especially recurrent in the cases of new incorporations, variations and hours of PAM”, according to FSIE.

According to STEPV sources, a good part of the defaults are explained by the new decree on educational inclusion, which ended up causing a delay in the publication of the action plan for improvement (PAM), that is, of all the agreed hours that correspond to each center for care programs for students with educational needs. The more hours a teacher has linked to these programs at their center, the greater the amount owed by the Department, which has not yet paid anything for this concept.

“It is a tremendous lack of coordination, because many centers have had to advance their funds to pay the faculty who attend these programs“They denounce. Educacin, which yesterday avoided answering the questions in this newspaper, had promised the unions to keep all the payments for the November payroll updated. CSIF goes further and regrets” the defenselessness of the people affected, who they may take up to two months to be served by the payroll department “of the Ministry of Education.

The other group dissatisfied with the Consell is the health sector. In November 2020, the Government of Ximo Puig approved to allocate 43 million euros to an extraordinary gratification to those who had been on the front line of containment of the pandemic In hospitals and health centers, the call pays Covid. More than 40,000 professionals who developed their work between March 14 and June 21, 2020 will receive this income before the end of the year. In addition, 500 million will be used to pay for the extra days that they could have done until November 18, 2020.

To this day, there are 2,200 health workers who are still claiming this bonus in court. According to the SATSE union, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists or midwives have had to file lawsuits in the Contentious-Administrative courts to claim their right. In the Valencia College of Nurses there is evidence of professionals who are suing, “and we support that all those who have the right to do so,” indicate collegiate sources.

Health ensures that this payment was paid in December 2020, but admits that there was a subsequent payment for some claims and that there are professionals who do not meet the requirements to collect the bonus and that they have chosen to claim it by judicial means.

The problem is that it was each Health department who determined which professionals should receive the gratification under the criterion that they had worked “in person” and in contact with patients during the state of alarm in critical areas, emergencies, pneumology, internal medicine and health emergency services, also adding preventive medicine, microbiology, radiology technicians or occupational risk services.

An ace occurred disparities, according to SATSE, as the professionals of the Maternity and Pediatric service of the Peset Hospital in Valencia were not compensated, where the first nurse died from Covid in April 2020. In La Fe, radiology nurses were not considered in the first line either , but to the technicians. This disparity is what has caused part of the group to mobilize to go to court to claim what they consider a right.