The Executive and therefore the PSOE, have time and again blocked the processing in Congress of the bill that would allow early retirement for national police and civil guards, as well as their recognition as a risky profession. For the umpteenth time, on November 26, Pedro Sánchez’s Executive requested an extension of the deadline for amendments to block and delay your approvalwith the aim that does not come into force in January 2025. And all this with the approval of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaskto.
But this refusal to declare them a “risk profession” is better understood if we take into account the report that the Government itself sent to the Senate on November 4 and in which it makes it clear that “the concept of risk profession does not exist as such neither in the regulation of the Social Security regime nor in that of the Passive Classes regime. It has its origin in Royal Legislative Decree 8/2015, of October 30, which approves the consolidated text of the General Law of Social Security, which provides for the possibility of lower the minimum retirement age by royal decree and through reducing coefficients for those groups or professional activities whose work is of an exceptionally painful, toxic, dangerous or unhealthy nature and involves high rates of morbidity or mortality.”
However, in that report they forget to mention that belonging to a risky profession directly affects retirement. In what sense? Professionals grouped in the so-called risk professions have the option of requesting the early retirement collecting 100% of the benefit. And who decides which professions are risky? The Ministry of Labor, which is in charge of preparing this list, includes railway workers, artists, miners, aerial work flight personnel, bullfighting professionals, firefighters, as well as members of the regional and local police forces. However, even though mossos and ertzainas are on the listthe agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard, no. Prison officials also do not appear.
Of course, despite the fact that the concept of a risk profession does not exist, as Pedro Sánchez’s Executive assures, there is a “Working Group that continues working” on it. And they continue working because, as the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP) points out, The Executive had not responded to the request of the Upper House for seven monthswhich approved a motion for the Executive to make the pertinent legal modifications so that the State Security Forces and Corps enjoy the consideration of a risk profession.
“The Government begins by saying that the risk profession does not exist. As is. If that is so, why are they giving that consideration to half the universe, in which the only thing left to include is the gardeners of the Palace of La Moncloa?” , they denounce (with irony) from the police union. Furthermore, they make it clear that the so-called “Working Group” is nothing more than a “public wild card” of the ministry led by Grande-Marlaska, to refuse to advance its consideration as a risky profession. “Every time they ask him something, Interior turns to him even though he concluded a long time ago that nothing is going to be done that costs money,” they clarify.
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