Bloco de Esquerda has a project to mandate that the government establish a reference salary range, defining a maximum salary gap between the highest and lowest pay at an employer.
This Saturday morning, the coordinator of the Bloco de Esquerda, Catarina Martins, will meet in Lisbon with the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel to discuss the situation of TAP – one of the public capital companies with the largest difference between the highest and lowest salaries.
With this diploma, the Left Block bank wants to apply the reference salary scales “in a compelling way to the public sector and companies with public capital”.
With regard to the private sector, the aim is to use the law as a form of pressure “through the relationships the private sector establishes with the state in terms of public procurement, government policy support, including community funds, and tax benefits”.
“For example, private employers whose salary scale does not conform to the defined reference salary scale are denied the right to participate in auctions or public tenders, as well as to take advantage of any benefits or subsidies and support established in public support programs of companies and the creation of jobs and possible public funding, including European funds,” the diploma reads.
On the political front, Bloco de Esquerda points out that “the recent news about the salaries of managers at TAP and the scandal of the compensation of half a million euros awarded to Alexandra Reis for the alleged “dismissal” gave rise to general outrage and to bring this issue back to the fore. on the table”.
It is therefore believed that “the definition of reference salary ranges is the affirmation of a standard of decency and the commitment of the state to combat the existing inequality in the business entities with which it establishes a relationship”.
According to the bloggers, Portugal is “one of the countries in the European Union with the highest wage inequality when we compare the decile of the highest wages and the decile of the lowest wages”.
Between 2020 and 2021, according to data that served as the basis for this diploma, “directors of the most important listed companies earned on average 32 times more than employees in 2021”.
“But if we go to specific cases, the difference is much bigger. At Pingo Doce, the difference is 262.6 times between the remuneration of the administrator, Pedro Soares dos Santos, and the average wage of the company’s employees. Cláudia Azevedo , administrator of Last year, Sonae was paid 77.4 times more than the group’s workers. Gonçalo Moura Martins, executive chairman of Mota-Engil, earned more than 73 times the average wage of the other workers in the construction company,” it said. diploma from Left Block.
Source: DN
