Union accuses banks of “illicit enrichment” for keeping pension increases
The National Union of Banking Staff and Technicians (SNQTB) argues that the appropriation of the difference between pension updates made by Social Security and those proposed by banks could result in losses of tens of thousands of euros for bank employees who retired from 2011 onwards. .
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According to a legal opinion requested by the National Union of Banking Staff and Technicians (SNQTB), It is illegal for banks to appropriate the difference between pension updates made by Social Security and those proposed by banks, reports Jornal Económico this Thursday. This same opinion was requested after the SNQTB accused the banks of keeping the difference between updating the collective work agreement and updating Social Security.
The legal opinion is signed by Rui Medeiros, professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Vasco Freitas da Costa, lawyer at Sérvulo, and says that the “economic absorption of this benefit by the banking institution to the detriment of the worker will, in principle, imply , an invalidation of the purpose pursued by the legal framework of the measure, proving, in this sense, incompatible with the principle of legality”.
Paulo Marcos, on the other hand, president of the SNQTB, accuses the banks of “carrying out illicit enrichment, as they did not contribute anything to it” and argues that the appropriation of this difference may imply losses of tens of thousands of euros for bank employees who retired from 2011 onwards.
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