The National Union of the Court Registry Dicastery claims that the clerks receive a service pension, not a special pension, and announces large-scale protests if the rights acquired by law are violated, News.ro reports.

According to trade unionists, the right to a service pension of employees was regulated by law.

h2; 1,700 clerks retired in 2021

“Unlike magistrates, who cannot initiate forms of protest or strike, specialized support staff from the courts and the prosecutor’s office draw the attention of political decision-makers that they will initiate broad protest actions that will lead to a complete blockage of activity in the system in a judicial manner , if this will negatively affect the conditions for the assignment of long-service pensions for specialized support staff (clerks),” the trade unions also sent.

They demand that the Government first give priority to increasing life expectancy, and then to the recommendations received from the experts of the World Bank regarding the achievement of milestones in the PNRR.

The unions claim that statistics from the National Pension House show that the average retirement age of employees is 60 years and 9 months. Also, at the end of 2021, a little more than 1,700 clerks went on the payroll.

How much is the pension of officials?

“Registrars are entitled to a seniority pension, not a special pension, it’s practically an occupational pension, as it’s called in the European Union, as a reward for decades of service. justice, in a strict regime of prohibitions and incompatibilities that other professional categories do not have.

The right to a long-service pension was regulated by the law, which provides for the combined fulfillment of two conditions for receiving a long-service pension, namely, work experience in a profession of at least 25 years and reaching the age of 60, requirements other than which are not imposed on any other category of personnel. which benefits from a long-service pension,” the trade unions added.

According to them, the average pension of an employee is 4,839 lei, of which 2,474 lei are contributions and 2,655 lei are paid from the state budget.

“Given that Romania’s GDP in 2021 was €240 billion, the total amount of long-service pensions paid to civil servants from the public budget is only 0.042% of Romania’s GDP,” the unions said.

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