Memur-Sen: The tax rate for fixed-income earners should be fixed at 15%.

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Memur-Sen General President Ali Yalçın stated that it is necessary to abandon the formula that fixed income earners entered the 20% and 27% tax brackets in the middle of the year and to implement a table where the tax bracket is fixed at 15%.

Yalçın emphasized in his written statement that a legal regulation that will encompass public employees as a whole, solve their problems, meet their expectations, and provide relief to public employees is inevitable.

CALL FOR URGENT MEASURES

Pointing out that the most loyal segment to taxes is fixed income earners, Yalçın said, "It is necessary to urgently abandon the formula of 'increasing expenses at the source, reducing income', which is created knowingly and willingly by entering the 20% and 27% brackets in the middle of the year, and to implement a table where fixed income earners are fixed at the 15% bracket."

Reminding that with the 7th Term Collective Bargaining Agreement, an additional indicator of 3600 was provided to first-degree civil servants, Yalçın stated that the salaries of civil servants and retired civil servants who have been promoted to the first degree, especially chiefs and university graduates, should be raised to the necessary level.

"ADDITIONAL PAYMENT SHOULD REFLECT ON RETIREMENT SALARIES/SEVERANCE PAY"

Yalçın expressed that retirees receive low salaries and that the general increase given to working civil servants not being reflected in retired civil servant salaries creates grievances.

Offering solutions to these problems, Yalçın stated: Additional payment should be reflected in retirement salaries and severance pay based on the pension calculation rate. Instead of continuously funding the SGK by the Treasury, all earnings of those who started working after 2008 should be included in the premium-based earnings (without any loss in salaries and wages) and transferred to SGK to create resources. In the future, instead of 'funding' to increase the low retirement salaries that will arise from unpaid premiums today, premiums should be deducted today, and all incomes should be included in premium-based earnings (without any loss of income), SGK should be relieved, and retirement salaries should be increased. The pension calculation rate should be increased from 2% to 2.5-3%. The differences in the updating coefficient, the injustices arising from the year of retirement, and the absurdity of decreasing retirement salaries while the working period continues should come to an end.

Yalçın stated that the Law No. 4688 on Public Employees' Trade Unions needs to be amended, saying, "We need to immediately transition to a collective bargaining system where a libertarian perspective is processed, trade union concepts and practices are included, authority and representation are established strongly, and the concepts of struggle and negotiation come to life with strikes."

"OUR GAINS SHOULD NOT EVEN BE A SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION"

Stating that nearly 4 million public employees continue to work tirelessly for the welfare of the nation and the prosperity of the state, Yalçın noted: "The rights of our public employees, including duties, titles, authority, responsibility, career-competence, financial, social, and personal rights, retirement system, and similar areas should be addressed in a general and inclusive manner rather than singular regulations and should be updated. Transitioning the Auxiliary Services Class to the GIH class within the framework of its accumulation will be the most effective outcome of this process. There is a need for an Engineering Profession Law that will reflect the duties and responsibilities as a whole, from occupational health and safety to professional responsibilities, and from financial and social rights to personal rights, which will protect the value of labor and hard work. The protective clothing and overtime pay gains that the parties have signed and said 'Yes' to at the collective bargaining table should not even be a subject of discussion to be excluded from austerity measures. In these days when the budget discussions for 2025 are continuing in the Planning and Budget Commission, the need for public personnel, personnel expenses, travel allowance amounts, and overtime hourly wage amounts should be realized in a way that is compatible with economic indicators, protects the rights of labor, and prioritizes public service.