Mahmut Arslan, President of "Hak-İş" Confederation, delivered the opening speech of the workshop held on the "Mandatory Retirement" application, which creates great grievances for workers transferred from subcontracting to the staff of "Öz Sağlık-İş" Healthworkers Union Strategic Research Center (ÖZ-SAM).
He noted that "Hak-İş" and its affiliated unions have brought about important gains in union life by bringing scientific findings about the problems experienced in working life.
Arslan continued his words by stating that there is a section in the public sector that cannot accept the recruitment of subcontracted workers.
"There has been an unacceptable staffing process since 2018. We are faced with many problems. But this opposition will not turn us from our path. Just as we signed the termination of the subcontractor and the acquisition of the right of assignment and settlement, we will also sign on to the solution of the compulsory retirement issue," he said.
"NEW PROBLEMS STARTED"
In his speech, "Öz Sağlık-İş" Union Chairman Devlet Sert, who hosted the program, stated that the staff arrangement was a great reform for working life, but there were many problems in practice.
"Working life of my brothers and sisters, who fulfill their duties duly and duly, is terminated by being directly transferred to retirement after they obtain their retirement rights. This regulation, which contradicts the principle of effective and efficient use of public resources, also poses an important obstacle to the actual and continuous delivery of public services," he said.
“AN APPLICATION AGAINST THE CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY PRINCIPLE”
Emphasizing that it is against the principle of equality that the compulsory retirement is only applied to the employees of the Decree Law No. 696, Sert said following words:
"In addition to the age and number of premium payment days, the nature of retirement based on the person's choice is ignored by the Decree Law. On the one hand, while the retirement age is increased with social security reforms to ensure financial balance, the fact that 696 Decree-Law workers are subject to compulsory retirement at an early age creates a great contradiction."