The secretary general of the UGT clarified on Tuesday that the increase in the national minimum wage (NMW) for 505 euros is not a transitional measure and that it is impossible to download this figure arise when wage negotiations next year.
Carlos Silva commented statements by the spokesman of the European Commission that Simon O’Connor, on Monday, announced that Brussels’ will assess Portugal’s decision to temporarily increase the minimum wage, “so has” all the details »on the measure, including its impact” whether in employment or in public finances’.
The leader of the UGT considered that here “much confusion” because the SMN has an annual update, but you can not go back to 485 euros.
“This is not possible. Or there is the maintenance of 505 euros or an increase, there is a regression, “he said, quoted by Lusa.
The UGT leader stressed that the next discussion about the NMS will be in September next year, with a view to their “update again in 2016.”
“And it will be in January 2016 and after a general election to be held in October and I hope that the next government may be available to a true increase in SMN, as the Portuguese deserve, naturally those who have less income, “he said.
Carlos Silva stressed that “it is worth making arrangements even against those who determine the destinies of Europe” because “the Portuguese is entitled to their sovereignty.”
“It seems that many people in Portugal who is against raising the minimum wage. Preferred workers who earn low wages continued to gain little. This is violence and I do not comment barbarities, “he added.
The diploma that updates from Wednesday the amount of SMN for 505 euros was published today in the Official Gazette to run until December 2015 />
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