"Öz-Sağlık-İş" healthcare professionals union Chairman Devlet Sert called for regulation for 26 thousand social workers.
Drawing attention to the time elapsed since the collective bargaining agreement and the increase in the minimum wage level, Sert emphasized that they would not remain silent on this situation.
Against the loss of rights, he demanded a "Wealth Share" arrangement.
For the social service worker who fell to the minimum wage level due to the collective agreements made with the increase in the minimum wage, "Öz Sağlık-İş" Union Chairman Devlet Sert called for an urgent "welfare share" arrangement.
He pointed out that the declines experienced were not acceptable. In the written statement made by the union, attention was drawn to the economic crisis and the regulations made to many segments of the society were reminded.
It was also underlined that social service workers could not benefit from these regulations.
In the statement made by the union, "The wages of social workers, who serve the disadvantaged sections of the society, the elderly, disabled, children and victims entrusted to them by the state, and fulfill their duties with great sincerity, devotion and extraordinary effort at every hour of the day, have now fallen to the minimum wage level. The gap between the wages of the workers who will benefit from the new period Public Framework Protocol, which will be signed in the coming days, as of January 1, and the wages of the workers working in the Health and Social Services Branch No. 17 under the Ministry of Family and Social Services will widen further, and over 26 thousand social workers will be excluded and marginalized," it was stated.