Left closes agreement for the entry of precarious jobs in the Public service – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

there is Already an agreement in principle between the Government and the parties of the left that the apoiom to the input of the precarious in the Public service.

according To the Express, the Government reached an “agreement in principle” with the Left Bloc and the PCP about the issue, being that the measure will be included in the State Budget for 2017, although it is not yet set up the model to adopt.

According to the same source, the integration in the frames will be gradual but is yet to define how much the operation will cost and how many people will be already covered. In question are the workers identified as being to fill permanent needs in the Public service through, for example, of false green receipts.

Asked to confirm this news, the prime minister stated that “I am not a commentator of the news of the day” and that “on the Budget, we’ll talk in the Assembly of the Republic”.

Pedro Nuno Santos told the Express that “is still being worked on” with the Left Bloc and PCP how it will be changed to the State Budget so as to realise the promise of regularising precarious work in the State. “We are taking up this appointment,” which was set in the Budget of 2016, and was part of the agreement between the parties of the left, said the secretary of State.

The proposed amendment to the State Budget have to give input in the Assembly of the Republic until Friday and Pedro Nuno Santos assures that “is for days,” the disclosure of the report on the precarious situation in the State.

110 thousand precarious in the State?

This report prepared by the working group on the links labour to the public sector has given input in the guardianship within the deadline (end of October).

The Left Block, remembering that it is part of the agreements signed by the PS on the left, had asked the Government about the disclosure date of this report, having relied on the accounts of the economist Eugénio Rosa that point to 110 thousand precarious workers in the State and recalls that the fight against precariousness is a “fundamental pillar of the agreements that give body to the current political majority”.

Pedro Nuno Santos says now that only after you have known this report would be possible to quantify the number of workers that may be covered by this measure already in 2017, and the costs of this process to the coffers of the State.

the deputy of The Block, José Soeiro, stated to the Express that the aim is to integrate in State all workers who are identified as being to fill permanent needs in the Public through false green receipts, bogus research grants or fake professional internships.

“it’s Not about hiring more public servants, but to integrate the workers who are filling permanent needs, through procurement tools that do not correspond to their bond of service,” said mp Block.