Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Minister for Investment Promotion and Business Development and for the Modernization of the State and Public Administration, Eurico Monteiro, clarified today that the General Regime’s Job, Function and Remuneration Plan (PCFR) is already applicable to the central, indirect and municipal public administration, covering the majority of civil servants.
This clarification came after PAICV deputy Julião Varela accused the Government of governing for ratings and delaying the implementation of the PCFR, leaving professionals without a return to purchasing power, during today’s parliamentary debate.
According to PAICV deputy Julião Varela, Cape Verde has always had good ratings, recalling positions achieved in international indices of economic freedoms, transparency and democracy.
“But the essential issue of ratings (…) is only that of a Government that thinks about ratings, governs for numbers and ratings, not for people,” he stated.
The deputy listed situations that, in his opinion, remain unresolved, namely the regularization of precarious employment contracts in the health sector and the application of the PCFR (Priority Career and Remuneration Scheme) to various institutions.
“Hundreds of employees of the Ministry of Health took the competitive exam and are waiting for their situation to be regularized, and to this day it has not happened. The Minister should take this opportunity to tell us when he is going to resolve this issue,” he declared.
Julião Varela also mentioned employees of FICASE, finance technicians from IMAR, IEFP, the Social Organization, ICCA, prison officers, and journalists, arguing that they are waiting for the implementation of the PCFR so that there is an effective improvement in their income, emphasizing that, according to him, they have not had any significant salary increase in the last decade.
In response, Eurico Monteiro began by clarifying the legal framework of the PCFR, distinguishing between the general regime and special regimes.
“It is necessary to understand that we have the General or Common Career Plan (PCFR), and this PCFR is applicable to the majority of the public service. It also serves as a framework for some specificities, particularly for careers under the special regime,” he explained.
The official clarified that the general regime covers the central public administration, the indirect administration, essentially public institutes, and the autonomous municipal administration, but is not applicable to public companies such as RTC, nor to the state-owned enterprise sector or the private sector.
Eurico Monteiro stated that, despite the technical complexity of the matter, several PCFRs have already been approved.
“We have already approved the PCFR for teaching staff, the PCFR for doctors and nurses, the PCFR for diagnostic and therapeutic technicians, the PCFR for the Judiciary Police, the Constitutional Court, the technicians of the Judicial Information System, the National Institute of Public Health, the National Civil Protection Service, and the National Social Security Center,” he listed.
He added that the Career Plans and Salary Structures (PCFR) for the National Institute of Territorial Management and the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences are awaiting publication, while other regulations are in the final stages or have already been analyzed, particularly in the education sector and the Cape Verdean Institute for Equality and Gender Equity.
The minister also emphasized that not all institutes require a specific PCFR, since, as a general rule, they apply the common regime, and may only make occasional adaptations.
“The fact that an administration is autonomous in its organization does not mean that it has a special career structure and is obliged to apply the special regime,” he noted.
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