The Government authorized Metro de Lisboa to hire 58 workers. This hiring is foreseen in the company’s business plan and budget and represents an increase in personnel costs of 3.6 million euros, says the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Action in a statement.
These hirings take place at a time when the company has faced several partial strikes motivated, among other reasons, by insufficient human resources. In fact, the company itself admitted to the unions that it would reduce the offer of services so as not to overload the employees’ hours.
Lisbon Metro will reduce the offer so as not to overload workers
The contract includes 34 transit agents, 13 maintainers, nine specialized technicians and two construction inspectors. The Ministry adds that the entry of these new traffic agents will allow “the internal progression of 22 workers who, thus, go on to perform the function of train drivers, according to the commitment assumed by the Minister of the Environment and Climate Action, Duarte Cordeiro, with unions of associations on May 27”. The statement does not clarify when these new hires will be operational.
Also according to the Ministry of the Environment, the authorization now granted also allows, in particular, the implementation of the automatic promotions provided for in the Company Agreement, the reinforcement of the workers assigned to the stations and customer service, as well as the reinforcement of the teams in the areas of maintenance, monitoring and inspection of network modernization and expansion works.
Source: Observadora
