Working conditions for police officers are becoming increasingly difficult in Hungary
Besides the fact that law enforcement workers have not been given higher cafeterias, it seems certain that they cannot expect a wage increase next year either.
“Law enforcement officers are just laughing at the fact that, from now on, the local commander can decide again whether to compensate for the plenty of overtime that his staff collects due to increased responsibilities in their spare time or money. Police officers, firefighters, and prison officers, and those working in the civilian secret services, as well as the financial guards, are exhausted and desperate because law enforcement work was reintroduced last week to the point of exhaustion, in a way that only managers are appreciated.” – said Pál Powell, head of Home Affairs Reconciliation Council to Népszava.
There is no explanation as to why – after the extension of the emergency adopted on 10th November – the government has only decided on severity now.
Accordingly, the working time of a law enforcement officer can exceed 48 hours per week or 12 hours per day, and the daily rest period can be reduced to 6 hours.
During this, one should eat, take a bath, sleep and also participate in family life. Now, however, the government has also added that “a member of the professional staff may not resign from professional employment,” as has been previously introduced in the case of health workers. In the spring, only the possibility of immediate departure was banned – reported by the Hungarian news portal Napi.hu.
Meanwhile, the 10% bonus from the beginning of the year has not been added to the base salary; they have not been given higher cafeteria; the evaluation of performance depends on the discretion and sympathy of managers and
it already seems inevitable that they will not receive a salary increase next year.
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Source: nepszava.hu; napi.hu
If you don’t like it, quit… if you cannot quit, strike, and you see how fast it all changes…
This model of wielding power at the managerial level is a short sighted approach that reduces the quality of the service that the men and women on the ground can provide to the public today and reduces the number of people in the future that will choose to enter the profession. If management actually has it own
interests at heart it would be policy to treat the service personnel with a higher degree of human consideration both in remuneration and in general appreciation. This topic I am particularly interested to comment on as I have visited Hungary multiple times and have noticed the particular phenomenon of people one on one being very cordial and personal and yet the striking contrast when that same person has any power from a lowly clerk to government official there is many instances of needless unkind and unprofessional behavior. It is my hope that Hungary as a national policy would treat this condition in a direct manner. For those of us that live abroad but love Hungary for its rich culture we love to visit and for those of us that have family in Hungary that would consider repatriating to Hungary let us improve our humanity to make Hungary a happy and forward thinking place that would hove opportunity and appeal for the next generation.