The PCP Secretary General admitted on Wednesday that he would immediately begin negotiations on an agreement with the PS if the Socialists make viable the projects to amend the labor law, which will be discussed this afternoon in the Assembly of the Republic.
“I will conclude an agreement today if the Socialist Party follows our proposals in the Assembly of the Republic. Let’s see what the position of the Socialist Party is on this, today, that is the big problem, the rest is just for us to come up with scenarios that will not have any consequences for people’s lives,” Paulo Raimundo told journalists from Carregado.
The PCP today presents in Parliament four projects to change labor legislation, namely in the areas of collective agreements, regulation of shift work and appreciation of those who work shifts, and the end of the cuts in overtime ‘implemented by the PSD /CDS-PP government that did not want to restore the The socialist government”.
“What I heard from the statements of Pedro Nuno Santos during the Socialist Party’s election campaign was that we must maintain stability in labor legislation, which means instability in the lives of these people, which is the big problem and that is why today is a good opportunity to provide clarity. what paths each person wants and the answer determines what will be tomorrow,” he said.
For the communist leader, the Socialist Party is just one party and it is not worth thinking that a solution for our lives will emerge from it.
Due to the lack of expectations of a change in policy with the new leader of the PS, Pedro Nuno Santos, Paulo Raimundo asked for the strengthening of the PCP’s voice in the parliamentary elections on March 10, claiming that “this will be the condition are” also the country’s decisions on overtime.
The Secretary General of the PCP spoke on the sidelines of the contacts he had today with employees outside the Matutano company, in the municipality of Alenquer, Lisbon district.
For the PCP, Matutano is the example of a company in which shift work must be valued and reduced “to the necessary minimum”. Raimundo warned that there are areas of the business where continuous work is not justified.
Marcos Rebocho, leader of the Food Industry Workers Union, explained to journalists that with continuous work, the 350 workers cannot rest two days a week.
The company’s salary devaluation also meant that employees were paid salaries close to the minimum wage, he added.
Source: DN
