The Parliamentary Group of the PCP presented this Monday four bills to modify the Decent Work Agenda, guaranteeing the payment of overtime to all workers and revoking the expiration of collective bargaining.
to fight against “general degradation of the living conditions of the majority of the Portuguese”which from the point of view of the PCP is “the result of the exploitation policy that promoted low wages”, the diploma grants compensation of 50% for the first hour of extra work and 75% for the following hours, on working days.
If overtime is performed on the worker’s weekly rest day or on holidays, compensation must be 100% for each hour of work performed.
“The worker who performs normal work on a holiday in a company not obliged to suspend operations that day is entitled to a compensatory rest of the same duration or an increase of 100% of the corresponding remuneration,” proposes the communist caucus.
In another bill, the PCP provides for the elimination of the expiration of collective bargainingone of the banners of the party in terms of labor legislation and that was the main element of the interventions of the general secretary, Jerónimo de Sousa, on several occasions.
“It is unacceptable that the norm of the expiration of collective agreements has been introduced and that the establishment of working conditions worse than those provided by law has been allowed, violating the principle of more favorable treatment for the worker,” argues the bench directed by Paula Santos.
The possibility that employers have of refusing to negotiate and proceed to terminate collective bargaining agreements opens the door, from the point of view of the PCP, to “blackmail the workers and their unions, placing them before the false alternative between the extinction or the agreement for the reduction of rights”.
“Every year the blackmail of employers is repeated,” he adds.
The parliamentary group also intends to prohibit “the use of a mechanism to liberalize the working day or to extend the daily and weekly hours, inside and outside the workplace, beyond the maximum limits of the normal working day.”
The Decent Work Agenda will be discussed in the Assembly of the Republic on July 7th.
Source: Observadora
