translated from Spanish: Migration gives ultimatum to managers to give ‘voluntary contributions’

The National Migration Institute (INM) wants its managers to make the so-called “voluntary contributions” of their salary and the aguinaldos decreed by the Ministry of Finance last July and gave as a deadline to catch up on January 11.
In principle, these are economic resignations that the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented as volunteers. In the past week, however, officials have been pressured to catch up on both emails and phone calls. 
“Voluntary contributions” are a mechanism devised by the Ministry of Finance wherein the average and high positions of each institution donate a portion of their salary and the aguinaldo that depends on the ladder in which they are located. All officials with ranks as deputy directors have been called up. 
As he knew Political Animal, the current request is for officials to catch up on payments. I mean, those who haven’t paid in the last few months do it now.
The order was from administration and all area managers were brought in warning them that superiors would be informed of how much each official contributed. This was interpreted by the officers as a form of pressure. In addition, in subsequent phone calls they received the message that their job was in danger in case they did not meet the payments. 
For those who have not given up part of their wages, catching up can now be a heavy economic blow. For example, a deputy director, who is the lowest ladder he must contribute, is asked for 5% of a net salary of 30 thousand 793 pesos, so the contribution would be one thousand 539 pesos per month. So someone who didn’t make their payment previously should now disburse 7,500 pesos, plus the corresponding aguinaldo.
Political Animal consulted the INM on this ultimatum and also wanted to know how many managers have paid so far and how many have refused, but at the close of the edition it had not received a response. 
This is not the first time INM officials have reported being pressured to give part of their salary to the anti-discrimination plan. The institution led by Garduño was the first to formalize the proposal made on April 5 last year by the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, so that senior officials and intermediate commands would renounce the Christmas aguinaldo so that that money could “be used in a field for the most vulnerable population”. 
According to Animal Politics, at meetings held on April 28 last year, INM officials were pressured to sign a document expressing support for the head of government and giving up the Christmas aguinaldo.
In these meetings, the staff representatives of the INM offered two roles: on the one hand, the one that formalized the application to renounce the aguinaldo. On the other hand, the resignation of office in case you do not want to make the “voluntary contribution”. Nonconformity spread within THE INM offices and Human Resources representatives abandoned the strategy of “or aguinaldo waivers or wage waivers.”
Now, the INM management insists on claiming the money, always presented as a “voluntary contribution”.
Plan announced in April
On April 5 last year, during the presentation of the economic rescue plan to the COVID pandemic, López Obrador announced the pay cut and the removal of the aguinaldo to his government officials, which caused surprise and nonconformity among the workers, who reported that they were not consulted for it.
The government then nuanced his speech and assured that there would be no pay cuts, but that officials who wished to contribute part of their salary would voluntarily contribute part of their pay.
On July 15, the Ministry of Finance sent a trade to all federal government agencies in which the request for public servants to make donations of between 5 and 25% of their net monthly salary was formalized, depending on the level of their place. The officials to make contributions were the President of the Republic, Secretaries of State, Undersecretaries, Heads of Unit, Directors-General, Area Directors and Deputy Directors.
According to the request, CEOs must donate 17%; Deputy Directors-General, 14%; area managers 10% and area subdirectories, 5%. 
In this trade, the Treasury made available to workers a bank account of the Federation Treasury to make window deposits every mIs.
Then, on November 6, the Ministry of Finance sent another circular establishing guidelines for officials to hand over part of their aguinaldo to the government.
To this end, the unit included in the office a tabulator indicating how many days of aguinaldo the worker had to contribute by virtue of his salary level. Thus, while a secretary of state had to resign 20 days after his aguinaldo, an area deputy director resigned between one and seven days from that benefit.
The nonconformity within the Migration Institute, which has played a key role in the implementation of the US agreements to slow the flow to the northern border, is not limited to the pay cut among managers. A number of sources consulted complain about the lack of measures taken to protect officials from contagion.
Although the INM never made public the fact about how many officers had fallen ill, Animal Politics was able to know, thanks to a request for transparency, that at least 186 officials were infected with COVID-19 over the past year. These are in addition to the 52 migrants who became ill, according to garduño’s own institution.
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Original source in Spanish