CTT – Correios de Portugal is hiring postmen for the summer with temporary contracts of three to seven months, the company reported in a statement on Monday.
According to the CTT, those interested must be at least 18 years old, have completed the 9th year of school and have a driver’s license (preferably to drive motorcycles).
“The duration of the contracts can vary between three and seven months and the hiring will be carried out for the different operational centers in mainland Portugal and islandsfor distribution, production and logistics functions,” the company said in a statement, without indicating how many people it intends to hire for the summer.
CTT also says that they will reinforce the Operational Centers of CTT Expresso, and they are asked to be available to work at different times.
CTT workers will be on partial strike for two hours this Wednesday (25) due to higher wages and better working conditions.
The Federation of Transport and Communications Unions (Fectrans), which called the strike, said that the workers do not accept the salary update of 7.5 euros proposed by the CTT, “which had a profit of 38 million last year.”
Employees of the Santa Maria da Feira postal distribution center (Aveiro district) have been on strike since Friday of last week until the 27according to the National Union of Postal and Telecommunications Workers (SNTCT).
“The post office is in poor condition throughout the country, but Santa Maria da Feira is a completely different case, as it is chaotic. The returns are very long and, if before a postman could not reach his circuit and still had to do another one in parallel, because there were many people on vacation or sick leave, now everything is much worse, the mail piles up and what is I had to deliver between one and three business days, now it took a week or even two,” the regional and national director of the SNTCT, António Pereira, told Lusa.
Questioned by Lusa, the CTT management admitted “the existence of limitations in postal distribution in the municipality”, which attributed to the “high absenteeism” registered in the distribution centeraggravated in the last two weeks by “Covid infections, which puts additional pressure on the normal functioning of the network”.
The management stated, however, that “CTT has been trying to mitigate this situation from day one, providing temporary reinforcement of resources through the hiring of more employees” and that “the situation will be regularized soon.”
The delivery of mail by CTT has given rise to complaints from local authorities in various parts of Portugal.
In 2021, CTT made a profit of 38.4 million euros, more than double the 16.7 million euros recorded in 2020. In the first quarter of this year, profits were 5.4 million euros, a 38.1% less than in the same period of the previous year.
According to an official source, CTT employs 12,015 people in Portugal, with the company operating 2,356 CTT Points and more than 5,000 Payshop agents.
Source: Observadora
