After more than eight hours of analysis and discussion, the Board of Directors of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) unanimously complied with all the provisions of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) where the agreements signed with the unions are canceled.
Román Macaya, Executive President of the CCSS, calls for sanity because he knows that this “creates discord” among officials. Thus, the agreements that exempted the workers of the Fund from some articles of the Law on Strengthening of Public Finances, are now without effect.
According to the Comptroller:
-The CCSS could not sign the agreements because the agreements of February and August 2019 do not constitute administrative declarations of rights, the CCSS must refrain from initiating a judicial process of injury or any other type of administrative procedure for the declaration.
-The CCSS must apply Title III of the Law on Strengthening of Public Finance, No. 9635, under the conditions, terms and deadlines established in said standard. This would make the institution to run with its payment systems, since it should meet the same deadline given to the rest of the public sector institutions and not use the projected term mentioned by the CCSS for at least two years.
-The CCSS authorities must hold an extraordinary session within a maximum period of five working days after the notification of this document, in accordance with the provisions of article 18 of the CCSS Constitutive Law, so that said authorities adopt the agreements that accredit compliance with the provisions in points 3.1 and 3.2 and send a copy to the Comptroller General of the Republic.