The leader of the CGTP/Azores, João Decq Mota, defended this Monday an increase in the national minimum wage from 5% to 7.5%, “immediately”, to “mitigate the effects of inflation” on workers. income and pensions.
The demand is part of a package of 10 measures that the union structure delivered this Monday, in Ponta Delgada, to the President of the Government of the Azores (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM), the Social Democrat José Manuel Bolieiro.
The leader of the Azorean executive receives the social agents around the preparation of the preliminary proposals of the Plan and Budget for 2023, which It should be discussed in November in the Regional Legislative Assembly.
The CGTP/Azores, in addition to increasing the increase in the national minimum wage from 5% to 7.5%, “immediately”, argues that it should be updated again in 2023.
João Decq Mota mentioned that it is also intended to update the Complementary Remuneration by 100 euros, contemplating in the package of measures the need to “reduce the costs of essential goods and services”, such as water, electricity, fuel and transportation to “relieve families ”. and business”.
The CGTP/Azores package also calls for the “transfer to permanent workers who occupy permanent jobs, with fixed-term contracts or green receipts, in accordance with the principle that a permanent job must correspond to an effective bond”.
The union leader pointed out the need to change the occupational programs and internships to “guarantee the hiring with integration within the framework of covered workers, who occupy permanent jobs, avoiding their use as free labor and without rights.”
On the other hand, the CGTP/Azores wants to prevent the distribution of dividends by public companies, with the aim of “using the available funds in new investments and in reducing the costs of the services they provide.”
The regional structure of the trade union center defends the creation of a development program with the aim of “Dynamization of the regional business fabric”with the aim of “strengthening exports and substituting imports for regional production, in order to balance the trade balance and reduce external dependence.”
The CGTP/Azores also defends in its package of measures the “absolute priority to the creation and maintenance of employment, stimulating regional production, driven by an assertive and effective policy of incentives to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.”
The Regional Government (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM) depends on the support of the parties that make up the executive and those with which it has parliamentary advocacy agreements (IL, Chega and independent deputy) to have an absolute majority in the Regional Legislative Assembly. .
Source: Observadora
