Within 30 days the voluntary regime so that police officers can “access the payment of an additional extraordinary reparation for unfavorable areas”after the government project was approved today in the Río Negro Legislature and by majority.
These are the police officers who were affected by bad settlements in terms of unfavorable areas. This reparation proposed by the Weretilneck government aims to close the judicial front caused by the poor liquidation of the unfavorable area, because its calculation did not include non-remunerative additionals, applied between 2007 and 2015.
The new law establishes a voluntary regime to which agents and retirees covered by Law L No. 679 can adhere, in order to access retroactive payment for salary differences caused by poor settlements, in non-prescribed periods.
This extraordinary remedy will benefit all affected officers, regardless of whether they took legal action or not. It was also detailed that the repair amounts range between 2.5 and 3.8 million pesos for Security personnel, and between 1.6 and 2.1 million pesos for technicians.
The regime will come into effect after 30 days when the law is regulated and to receive payment, each agent must choose to voluntarily adhere to the regime, thus renouncing future legal claims.
Meanwhile, agents who have ongoing lawsuits must terminate them, while those retired who are covered by this regime are those who were active in the last three years.
According to a survey by legislator Natalia Reynoso of JSRN, she pointed out that “there are 8,615 police officers who could prosecute and there are already 4,000 who have initiated legal cases” and that this project seeks to “take urgent and the immediacy of the case to be able to think of a diagram that absorbs the litigation and to be able to provide an equitable and extraordinary response.
The debate began since legislator Magdalena Odarda from Vamos con Todos agreed that the project “is a recognition of a right, but it is not enough.” She explained that the retirees were not consulted »and that is why the bloc presented proposals for modifications to the project that will be analyzed.
The legislator reported that “it does not establish when the payment date will be, it does not establish what type of currency they will be paid with.”
In turn, the PRO legislator, Juan Martín, expressed that from the Executive Branch “they sat down to put this together without having the voice of a part of this police family: the retirees. I hope I’m wrong but this repair program is going to be a failure because this is not an extraordinary repair, it is nothing like that. It is an attempt to fix the baton that was sent. It is an institutional shame.”
Prior to the vote, an intermission was held where the proposals of the Primero Río Negro and Vamos con Todos bloc that will be incorporated into the regulations were considered.
It is important to highlight that the provincial executive addressed this situation since last January when, through Decree No. 38/24, it ordered the application of the unfavorable zone percentage on the total remuneration concepts of active agents, with the exception of family allowances, bonus police and clothing, in response to legal claims initiated by police officers.
With the new law, it is based on that decree but expands coverage to all those who decide to join, thus marking an important step towards solving this problem.