The 2000 lira bonus is shameful

Heavy The retirees, struggling to survive with the financial crisis created by the economic crisis, demanded that the 2000 TL holiday bonus be increased to the minimum wage. Pointing out that retirees are the poorest segment of society after the unemployed, Ferzan Sarsılmaz, Secretary of the Antalya Branch of the Retired Persons’ Union, said: “2000 lira is meaningless in the face of excessive price increases, inflation and the high cost of living. “Paying a bonus amount so a family of four can’t even have dinner has become shameful and humiliating for us retirees,” he said.

PAY ‘MINIMUM’

Ferzan Sarsılmaz pointed out that with these salaries and this vacation bonus, the retiree would not be able to live a decent life or live up to their traditions. Sarsılmaz reiterated his demand that “retirees be paid at least 4 times a year at the level of the minimum wage” and said: “Increase the vacation bonus for retirees, whom you have made the poorest stratum of society after the unemployed, for the level of the minimum wage. It is not possible for retirees to go on vacation with their pensions. At least, do not embarrass 15 million 600 thousand retirees their children and grandchildren. We are calling the power, we do not get along. We want to breathe on vacation. Pay our vacation bonuses at the minimum wage level now. We yell it one more time for you to hear,” he said.