A Portuguese state worker, who has reached retirement age with no entitlement to any pension, filed a lawsuit this Thursday demanding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MNO) a lifetime allowance equal to her last salary.
According to the Secretary General of the Union of Consular Employees and Diplomatic Missions (STCMD), Rosa Teixeira, cases such as that of the South African citizen, who from 1973 to March 2020, when she was 70 years old, worked on the Portuguese embassy in South Africa. years old, they exist all over the world.
The union estimates that between 70 and 80 employees of Portuguese embassies and consulates around the world have reached retirement age without entitlement to a single pension in euros.
To resolve the situation of this citizen, who turns 73 on Friday, the STCMD is helping her with a lawsuit against the Portuguese state, which they accuse of failing to fulfill her obligation to protect her health while she was at work . reaching retirement age and are not entitled to a pension.
“What we are asking in this process is that the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since it has not done what was necessary to bring this worker back to normalcy, be ordered to pay her last wages until her death”said the union man.
With this compensation, the union wants the employee to end her life “with some dignity”.
Rosa Teixeira revealed that during a recent meeting with the guardian, it was brought up that there are 240 employees (Portuguese and foreigners working in embassies and Portuguese advisers abroad) who are not registered in social protection systems.
Of these 240, the services have identified 71 pending situations, with 39 being resolved, he said.
Source: DN
