Over 2,000 healthcare workers in Monagas demand unpaid vacation bonus

Healthcare workers in Venezuela's Monagas state are escalating their demands for unpaid vacation bonuses, with over 2,000 employees formally petitioning the Labor Inspectorate in Maturín.

Representatives from various health sectors, including doctors, nurses, administrative staff, laborers, and retirees affiliated with the Instituto Único de Salud del Estado Monagas (Insamonagas), gathered to submit a collective claim. They cite a lack of institutional response from regional bodies regarding the overdue vacation bonus.

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We are gathered here to deliver a set of demands to the Ministry of Labor to request the homologation and granting of the vacation bonus. More than 2,000 workers are being affected.

Daisy Cabello, president of the Base Union of the National Health Federation (Fenasintrasalud), stated during the document submission, "We are gathered here to deliver a set of demands to the Ministry of Labor to request the homologation and granting of the vacation bonus. More than 2,000 workers are being affected."

Union leaders highlighted that a signature collection campaign among healthcare personnel had previously been conducted to legally support the petition. Affected workers expressed frustration over the accumulated delays in receiving their due compensation. Rafael Padrino, a healthcare worker, lamented, "We have been fighting for this benefit for more than three years without any response, neither from the authorities nor from the governor's office, and year after year we are affected without achieving anything."

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We have been fighting for this benefit for more than three years without any response, neither from the authorities nor from the governor's office, and year after year we are affected without achieving anything.