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The Director of the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones CientÃficas (IVIC), Dr. Angel Viloria, clarifies to the public that there will be no collapse of the institution by regularizing the situation of 27 researchers retirees under the scheme called Stay at Work Research (PLI).
Today the Board of IVIC reviewing this program, which was created in 1992 by an internal resolution of the Institute. "Some researchers are about to turn 20 years having acquired the right to retirement and remain the beneficiaries of PLI within the institution since 1992, ie 17 years are enjoying a profit, which contradicts the spirit of the pension and legal drawbacks, "said Viloria.
IVIC The Board decided to revise the figure to the bottom and it is likely that this particular regime is gone, so IVIC authorities are seeking an alternative way for researchers to retirees who are "motivated to continue working the good of the country, making relief generation and carrying out research of high national relevance, can do and enjoy conditions minimum within the institution. "
According to the standard established researchers under this scheme must meet the work schedule and adhere to the duty of all workers in the IVIC. But being retired, are exempt from income tax cancel and should not make statements of their assets. They also receive an annual bonus of two months (vacation bonus equivalent to active researchers), are other bonds that are not canceled IVIC staff and retired staff, unlike active-they do not apply to them the respective deductions biweekly payroll.
other hand, maintain their personal and work teams under his supervision, unable to resume teaching in and out of IVIC IVIC, which also can retire these universities receive annual budget for research (equipment, vi attics, books, travel and other supplies, as active researchers) and can receive foreign funding, among other benefits.
It was learned that there are four cases of application for renewal of the PLI scheme that had to defer, until the Board of Directors of IVIC a decision on the scheme permanent. "You have to check those who have been benefiting from institutional budgets without personal career almost 20 years to see a return on investment made by the IVIC. Some Venezuelan newspapers have offered a distorted impression of this problem, "he said. Viloria.
media distortion
There are 27 retirees covered by the IVIC Special Stay in research, and the prospect of the elimination of the program some print and broadcast media have asserted that the Institute will collapse, because there are people ready to supplant them. "This gives a poor impression about the capabilities of these people expected that the research need to train a generation of relief, and a terrible idea to egomania among these scientists, "said Director of IVIC.
IVIC currently has about 190 researchers and postdoctoral fellows. In the opinion of the Director, maintain and support all research that would be useful and necessary to the country. "We can not continue to invest primarily in matters that are of interest to the state," he said.
addition to this, according to Viloria has become a public scandal for the withdrawal of the benefit of a retired PLI. It was learned he did not meet the minimum duty Requirements: attend the lab, as confirmed in the IVIC. This retired for 12 years benefited from the PLI and a series of labor and budget prerogatives to work, to travel to scientific meetings and academic stays abroad, purchase instruments and equipment for a laboratory of the State.
"IVIC authorities were outraged: this is not a dismissal, the man is retired from the first of July 1997. He spent the entire budget, and did not attend. We do not know if all those scientific articles that made claims to have published elsewhere. The authorities of the Institute can not be complicit of immorality. We are tired of academic rhetoric and hypocrisy, "said Viloria.
IVIC Director stressed that it was a purely administrative matter, but some journalists have given a political tinge, attacking the national institutions, he said. "In the IVIC and will continue to follow state policies. At no time did the authorities of the Institute (which are also research scientists) have attempted to judge the quality of research by retired favored by the PLI. What is certain is that the parameters that had been measured the scientific productivity and that is building the prestige of the scientists are mostly unrelated to the fundamental values \u200b\u200bof contemporary Venezuela. It is not possible to give prominence to the citation indexes created by commercial consortia. We must assess how much sense does it continue to count publications and awards to the country's future. "
not only reviews the PLI. IVIC currently being revised in the organizational aspects, structural and functional. It was learned that this will lead to the establishment of a new legal framework, according to the Bolivarian philosophy that ensures that the Institute was primarily to meet basic needs country and not to favor elites and minority groups, nor remain a springboard to catapult careers, Viloria said.
can not lose sight of the IVIC is a state institution under the Ministry of Popular Power for Science, Technology and Industry Middle, and it should work in line with government policies, he said.
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