Tiago Petinga / Lusa
Joana Mortágua and Mariana Mortágua
From green receipts to the paintings, from paintings to green receipts, fictional bounds, cash payments to compose salary, from the Lisbon Assembly to the party, from the party to the assembly. The old “112” of the Left Bloc tells how it was fired by the party.
For the second time in the space a few days, the left block is involved in controversies related to Labor Questions.
After last week the party was employees just out of maternity licensesthis Wednesday, an old bloc employee reported having been dismissed-after years of receiving the maturity of unorthodox ways.
According to the magazine, the story of Victor Machadoknown as the party’s “doing all”, includes fictitious bounds, the passage of employees from employees to precarious, cash payments to compose salary and one compensation paid with use of a green receipt.
Vítor Machado says he started working for the Left Block in 2008. At that time, the party only needed “a technical help,” but eventually became an employee, he explained to the channel.
“When they hired me to actively be part of the block as an employee, they explained to me that ok, In the only way to enter It is this way, it is by the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon, with VERD receipte“The former employee said on the television channel.
It was then, hired as an advisor, but in reality it was not. This is because parties receive a specific budget for hiring advisors, so Victor began to receive, per month, just over 700 euros in green receipts. They paid him the rest in cash – About 400 euros.
Eventually, he eventually joined the party’s paintings. But in 2015, they once again told him that I had to go back to the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon – that is, to receive again through green receipts.
“In early 2015 it was that debacle, where they told me you have to go back to the Municipal Assembly, because you have tor. What a leader told me at the time is that we were with financial difficulties and therefore, I will be a Blessed bad, but I have to be: there was money Available at the Municipal Assembly, and it was around ”that he returned to green receipts, says Vítor Machado.
In 2016, he was 53 years old and nearly 10 years working in the party, the party ends the work bond. It was then that it was proposed to Vitor Machado to receive a compensation of 12 thousand euros, but through green receipts.
“The funniest thing is that I wasn’t even a party employee Two years ago, why are they going to give me compensation? ”Recalls Vitor.
At the meeting, guarantees to have a state present Joana Mortágua (Party deputy and sister of the leader, Mariana Mortágua) and Fabien Figueiredocurrent parliamentary leader of BE.
Currently, Vitor Machado remains unemployed.
This Thursday, the two cases of alleged ghost contracts, in which the block is suspected of giving term contracts to two employees to not have to compensate them for the dismissal.
The case was also initially by the magazine Saturday, which reported the existence of Five cases of workers that would have been dismissed from the bloc shortly after they gave birth and when they were still breastfeeding – the situation that the party began by.
