Inspectors of the Judiciary Police have called a strike for overtime work from April 1, due to the lack of regulation of the statute of special careers and the stagnation of negotiations with the direction and the Ministry of Justice.
According to the prior notice sent today to newsrooms by the Union Association of Criminal Investigation Employees of the Judiciary Police (ASFIC/PJ), the strike starts at 00:00 on April 01st and lasts indefinitely, affecting the work of the prevention units and all work performed outside normal working hours, that is, between 12:30 pm and 14:00 pm and between 17:30 pm and 9:00 am.
At issue for the trade union, chaired by Carla Pinto, is the lack of regulation of the professional status of special careers, which should have been carried out within the six months following its entry into force, that is, since July 2020; the lack of human and material resources; and the non-update by the guardianship of the reference of the values of the picket and prevention supplements.
On this last point, the ASFIC/PJ highlighted that, in some cases, an inspector ends up receiving an amount below the guaranteed minimum remuneration in a picket service at the weekend, translating into an “illiquid and unworthy amount of 3,61 euros” per hour of work.
The refusal to authorize the transition to availability when a worker reaches 55 years of age and 36 years of service was also invoked.
Finally, the inspectors criticized “the absence of any effective progress in negotiations with the Ministry of Justice and the National Directorate of the PJ” to resolve the problems denounced by the workers of this police force, recalling that “the country is going through a period of economic and social crisis resulting from rising inflation”.
On January 23, the president of ASFIC/PJ had already left an alert for the need for answers to the demands of the inspectors for problems that are about two decades old. “For 20 years the inspectors have put the common good ahead of their personal interests and 20 years is long enough. The time has come for people to put their foot down, it is unsustainable to continue working like this”, said Carla Pinto to Lusa.
This notice covers employees in the criminal investigation career and the scientific police specialist career. The exception to this strike is the picket service of each unit, which, ASFIC/PJ clarified, “will guarantee the performance of all acts strictly indispensable to the satisfaction of imperative social needs that are intended to protect rights, freedoms and guarantees”.
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