The CGTP insisted this Friday on the repeal of “serious” norms of labor legislation that limit the right to collective bargaining, such as the expiration or withdrawal of the principle of more favorable treatment for the worker.
The general secretary of the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers – National Inter-Union (CGTP-IN), Isabel Camarinha, in a parliamentary hearing on the legislative initiatives under consideration by the Working Group on Modifications to Labor Legislation, within the scope of the Agenda of Decent Work, insisted that the Government’s proposals, currently under analysis in the specialty, “they are insufficient and do not solve” the problems of the workers.
The trade unionist listed issues that she considers fundamental, such as ensuring that a permanent job corresponds to an effective bond or ending “discrimination” of people seeking work for the first time and the long-term unemployed who have a trial period of 180 days .
“What we see is that there has been a blockage of collective bargaining and an impossibility of effectively improving working conditions,” said Isabel Camarinha, warning that it is a “extensive and complex” matter, difficult to expose in a hearing, and referring to the opinions sent by the intersindical.
Isabel Camarinha said that confiscation is a tool that employers use from the beginning of the process, to “try to condition” what will later be the negotiation, “blackmailing representative organizations of workers and trying to withdraw rights” enshrined in the agreements. groups, “in exchange for power” to come to fruition in a negotiation.
“Now this is unbalancing, well in the head, a process, and right at the beginning,” he said, also mentioning that it is necessary to change the rules of working hours and precarious work.
Reversing the “serious” norms of labor legislation is a substitution of the fundamental rights of workers with respect to the constitutional configuration, highlights the CGTP.
At stake are freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, the right to stability in employment and one of its corollaries, which is the right to fair compensation in case of dismissal, the right to limit the working day employment and the right to rest.
Source: Observadora
