Portway. collective dismissal of 83 employees – Observer

The Portway will proceed with the collective dismissal of 83 workers ‘handling’ (assistance at airports), instead of the 256 planned at the beginning of the process, after 173 workers have accepted alternative measures or have terminated voluntarily.

in the letter sent to 83 employees, the Lusa had access, the president of Portway, Jorge Ponce Leon, says that the savings resulting from the dismissal decision is “still short of the estimated cost savings when setting up the this process of collective dismissal “in about 1.2 million in three years (until 2019).

” Since the purpose of preserving the largest possible number of jobs, Portway decided to proceed the dismissal of 83 workers, which correspond to workers who have not expressed, explicitly, intention to join the alternative measure to dismissal, “reads the letter, which states that the dismissal of these 83 workers represents a savings to 7 business . of 3 million by 2019

the Portway presented to workers by firing four alternative measures – including the wage freeze for two years and the acceptance of a normal period of wage work 38 hours – that were accepted by 161 workers and thus left out of this process, according to reports the letter sent to employees.

this after the ‘handling’ company have closed on 29 June, an enterprise Agreement three sector unions – Democratic Workers Union of Airports and Aviation, National Union of Workers of Civil Aviation and Union of Handling Technical Airports) – whose members were automatically excluded from collective redundancies

. out, were the Union of workers of the Aviation and Airports (SITAVA) and the workers’ Union of Merchant Marine, Travel agencies, Freight Forwarders and fishing.

the non-unionized workers or integrating the two unions left out of this agreement had to individually subscribe to the four alternative measures to avoid dismissal.

“Each worker will decide their own future,” said Jorge Ponce de Leon when it was announced this possibility, referring if the collective dismissal, announced in March, which was then justified by the end of the provision of services (assistance at airports) to the airline Ryanair in Faro, Lisbon and Porto, which represented about one third of the Portway turnover.

Now the president of Portway estimated membership of 161 workers to alternative proposals unemployment would reduce personnel costs immediately “the significant effect of the wage freeze for two years and no automatic progression of career, and the terminations of work contracts, however, occurred. “

the termination of the contract with the 83 workers concerned happens to November 21, the document said.