The Finance Minister Mario Centeno made it clear on Tuesday that workers of EPE hospitals with individual employment contract will not be covered by reducing the weekly hours from 40 to 35 hours and the rest of the health sector will be necessary a period of adjustment so that the measure does not undermine public finances or the provision of services to citizens.
the replacement of the 35 hours was the main issue discussed during the hearing Mario Centeno in committee Labour and Social Security
Members of the PSD. – Adam Silva to open the period of questions and answers – insistently questioned whether the workers with individual contract would be covered or not by 35 hours. The Minister ended by saying that “the answer is no, and for many reasons.” Not indicated which, just highlighting that not all workers in the public administration are 35 or 40 hours per week and warning of the existence of normal working times in several different careers. Before, I had already warned that workers with individual employment contracts require “a kind of completely different intervention that we are talking to workers in public service.” Centeno recalled that the workers under the Labour Code Contracts are a situation which particularly affects the company hospitals, adding that any changes to the work schedule will have to be discussed in another context.
At the origin of the questions is the legislative text that the PS deputies presented on Friday in Parliament and only “down 35 hours as normal period for workers in public service.” That is, by law, only employees with an employment contract in public functions will have access to 35 hours on 1 July. But in the case of services understaffed, there is a transitional rule which provides that the reduced hours to take effect in stages by the end of the year.
This approach is contrary to the proposals that the CFP and the BE delivered in Parliament and who claim that the 35-hour cover all state employees, regardless of the type of link.
BE questioned the minister on the entry into force of the law of 35 hours in service with lack of staff, particularly in health and in particular in the nursing career. “During the public discussion, on July 1 it was appearing as a consensual date for the entry into force [the 35-hour]. Most employees have this certainty, but there is a sector that does not have that certainty. I speak of the health sector and speak of nurses and health officials working in shifts, “said Mrs Joana Mortágua. “What we respond to these nurses and these nurses? 35 hours are also for them and for them or not, “he asked.
Here Mario Centeno avoided a yes or no answer, preferring to emphasize that a transitional period is necessary” that does not jeopardize the financially and services sustainable transition to 35 hours “, stressing that it will be necessary to clarify the transitional rule.
later, in the second round of questions, Mário Centeno left its interpretation of that provision, stressing that it allows for “management instruments Government side to safeguard an undesirable potential effect that may jeopardize the successful implementation of the measure, which no one wants.”
Already in the morning the Prime Minister had explained that the existence of a “safety valve” aims to “promptly make time adjustments in services where, for practical difficulties hiring needed people, is in the continuity and quality of services provided to citizens” .
Asked by PSD and the CDS to disclose the survey results made to the service to evaluate the impact of 35 hours, Centeno eventually acknowledged that it is necessary to harmonize the methodology to be able to add the data collected. But he said that the health sector is “by far” the one where the impact is greatest. “Procurement costs of nurses in the second half of the year would be 27 million euros,” he exemplified.
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