Workers who accept termination have not guaranteed unemployment fund – Daily News – Lisbon

Right to unemployment benefits implies that this company status in recovery is approved. Something that is not guaranteed

More than 500 New Bank employees called by the administration in the termination process by mutual agreement are not yet sure about whether they will qualify for unemployment benefits, according to the National Workers Commission.

“the administration said the request for company status in recovery will be deferred. But this is not guaranteed. Also because the government has to give the green light to the quota termination by mutual agreement beyond the legal limits, “he said today in parliament Ruth Pires, the entity spokesman representing the workers of the New Bank. And he asked:. “How they are doing interviews before they deferral”

The right to unemployment benefits implies that this statute is approved, underlined the responsibility during the hearing of the CNT in the Commission of Labor and Social Security of the Parliament. Moreover, the CNT is also attentive to the situation of workers from other companies in the Novo Group Bank, although not mandated to represent them.

“They were called many workers BES Vida [now called GNB life] and computer companies, but only New Bank workers is that they can be accompanied by us “, said Ruth Pires. And cast: “Among these companies, there are some of them who had earnings These are also entitled to company status restructuring.?”

In view of the questions of the deputies, Rui Geraldes, other representatives of the CNT. he explained that the entity’s position is that, if even necessary to proceed with the reduction of staff, so that it proceed by way of early retirement, and only in the final analysis there is a termination process by mutual agreement.

the CNT is totally against the possibility of a collective dismissal if the number of outputs (500) that have to be accomplished – because of the agreement reached with Brussels – is not achieved through the termination of the program by mutual agreement is underway.

“the New Bank has 885 employees over 55 and 650 over 57 years,” said the official, ensuring that there were people who expressed desire to leave in the early retirement program released in 2015 and whose application has not been accepted by the administration, but were now called to cancel their contracts.