No civil servant may hold two or more positions or receive two or more salaries under the State Budget Remuneration Act, as approved by the deputies.
In the first hours of December 24 and after a marathon day, the Assembly approved the general budget of the nation 2021 with 59 votes, 2 against and 1 abstention. One aspect that the deputies stipulated is the ban on advertising places. honorem in public administration for this 2021.
Reviewing the number of officials who have dual positions in the Executive and why, although some are “ad honorem”, was precisely one of the goals that MPs have set for 2021.
“Ad honorem positions in the public administration are prohibited by the modality of the Salary, Contractual Law or under any type or modality and no civil servant or public employee can hold this type of functions”, it is shown in article 4 of the Decree 86 approved by the legislators.
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In addition, this article also details that no civil servant may hold two or more positions or receive two or more salaries under the State Budget Wages Act.
As approved, neither contracts for temporary professional services nor medical insurance for civil servants will be allowed.
The ban comes in a year in which officials with ad honorem positions in the Bukele administration have been known.
There are several officials who are under this concept and have dual functions, because they work as ministers or high-level officials of the Presidency of the Republic, but do not receive salary for that position, however, they have an advisory function for which they have an assigned salary. .
One such example is Legal Secretary of the Presidency, Conan Castro, who admitted in May last year that his position is ad honorem, but that he receives a salary for a position of legal adviser to the presidency. The most recent is the appointment of the director of police, Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, as deputy minister of security, when he already held the police directorate, which the organic law of this security body forbids. Arriaza Chicas resigned as deputy minister the day before the indictment plenary against him in the Assembly.
AND: The Assembly has reduced official propaganda in the 2021 budget to increase the minimum pension
The provisions include that government resources may not be used for the direct or indirect financing of the operations of companies or companies which do not correspond to the functions which, by express legal provisions, are their responsibility. That’s after I found out the company that owns the government newspaper was created with funds from CEL subsidiaries.
The decree also prohibits the amendment of the Wages Act to transfer positions in the contract system that are not justified under the civil service law or other legal instruments governing this issue, such as: collective agreements, arbitration awards or court decisions.
Likewise, vacancies that were vacant at the beginning of the fiscal year and that have a period of over one year of non-use cannot be used; In such cases, and if the need for human resources is found to be urgent and unavoidable, the institutions may contract personal services in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 83 of the general budgetary provisions.
That decree shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Cuts to official propaganda
The draft budget, which was presented on September 30 by the Minister of Finance, Alejandro Zelaya, also had some financial cuts, one of these adjustments was made in government consulting and advertising articles, CEPA, Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia, CIFCO and other institutions. .
In order to comply with the budgetary constraints for certain institutions, such as the Court of Auditors and the TSE, reductions were made for a total of $ 450.12 million in various portfolios, including: The Presidency of the Republic was reduced by $ 47.1 million ; 27 million to the Treasury and 27.6 million to the Defense.
One of the main changes to the spending plan is to increase the minimum pension from $ 204 to $ 307 per month.
AND: “I have asked several times to be summoned,” said Finance Minister Margarita Escobar. “It doesn’t even come from pressure,” the deputy replied.