Ana Mendes Godinho, former Minister of Labor and Social Security and current PS deputy, assures that the socialist proposal to increase pensions is “reasonable” and “well calculated”, which justifies the increase of 1.25 percentage points proposed as a modification of the State Budget. When asked about the challenge facing local authorities, he simply said that his life is a “permanent discovery” and guaranteed that he will always be “where it is most useful” for the country and the PS.
In the Commission of Inquiry program, on Rádio Observador, the former governor maintained that the PS was always “concerned with ensuring that it never compromises the sustainability” of Social Security, justifying that in this way the “guarantee of confidence to the new generations in Social Security.” Security is for them.”
Despite agreeing with the increase in Social Security financing sources, Mendes Godinho maintains that “limiting transfers to the Social Security stabilization fund is completely unacceptable.”
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The minister who was in charge of Social Security highlights the agreement to “revaluate income and salaries” reached during the time of António Costa, but also praises that the current Government continues with the objective, stressing that “it is the keystone to ensure that our collective mission is to raise wages.”
This agreement was, in the opinion of the minister, what allowed the country to stop having “the sustainability of Social Security as a system” for the first time. black cloud that was around”, with now “a horizon of reaching 2070” as the moment in which the fund will have “around 100 billion euros”. This, he said, “ensures that even in the most critical years, when we have an older population compared to the number of people who are actively working, [haverá] the capacity of Social Security to guarantee future reforms.”
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Asked about the PSD and CDS proposal, in OE2025, which aims to limit vacations and prevent all public employees of a certain service from taking vacations at the same time, Ana Mendes Godinho highlighted that “the worst signal we could give to the worker was “the setback in workers’ rights.”
“Right now the biggest discussion in the world is the fight for talent, for people, for workers,” he points out, justifying that “anything that implies going backwards in the achievements of workers is a attack on society and the social model we created.”
For the former governor, “making work models more flexible is the wrong path.” It is necessary, he stressed, to have the ability to “value the workers” and “guarantee that there are balances that the law itself often has to impose to guarantee that the parties are on equal terms.”
And asked if this option does not drag Europe into a race with other economies, the former minister maintains that in Europe we want to “establish ourselves as a society that values workers, the need to have a life beyond work, the way in which Work guarantees that people have decent working conditions and salaries that allow them to live a life in freedom.” “The European model cannot accept concepts based on setbacks for workers,” he stressed, underlining that Europe has been “very progressive” and has achieved “huge achievements”, believing that “society will not go backwards.”
“Europe has the pillar of social rights as what distinguishes us. It is also up to us, society, to demand what we believe and not let the commercial regression of the vile dollar sign that does not think about people take over us,” he concluded.
Source: Observadora
