Call for the resignation of the president of SGK
in retirement Due to the conditional clauses in the millennial regulation (EYT), the debates that civil servants, merchants and farmers who did not have 3 full years of service before 2002 could not retire have grown. The General Health Union-İş asked the SGK administration, which argued that the EYT regulation did not impose the 3-year requirement before 2002, to resign on the grounds that it “misinterpreted the law”. The union demanded that the request they sent to the Presidency be processed urgently for legal reform to avoid victimization. Having examined the EYT regulation by his lawyers, Genel Sağlık-İş concluded that some healthcare workers (public servants) cannot make use of their EYT right and therefore cannot retire due to the time requirement in the transitory article 205 of the old Retirement Fund Law. Union lawyers informed union leadership that there is a clear provision in section 205 that those who have not worked for ‘3 full years’ before May 23, 2002 cannot retire. Thereupon, the President of General Health-İş, Dr. Derya Uğur sent a letter to the Presidency with the determination that there will be serious complaints if the EYT law is not corrected and that the law must be corrected.
NO CONDITIONAL REASON
The union claimed that the time requirement will victimize all public officials and former Bag-Kur insured, as well as health workers. Making a statement on this request, SGK stated that contrary to the determinations, no one will be wronged. However, the SGK did not provide any specific reason to support this determination.
The critique of the ‘hypothetical commentary’
SPOKESMANSpeaking to Dr. Derya Uğur, he said that any official who stays with the 3-year condition will not be able to benefit from the EYT regulation, so there will be a serious loss of rights. Stating that SGK made subjective and hypothetical comments but was unable to make a technical determination, Dr. Uğur said, “SSI cannot make a legal assessment even with regard to a provision in its own field. Unfortunately, SGK flopped on EYT. We invite the president of the SGK to resign due to the wrong statement.”