Industry wages increased almost 5% this year. It is an appreciation that contrasts with the reality that many companies live today. Last week, 60 workers from a textile factory in Lousada suspended the employment contract because they had salaries overdue.
The turnover increased in January. Once the previous year, the climb was 0.9%. Data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) seem to show signs of recovery in the industry sector with still -falling sales, but in the national market to rise.
It is true that there is less employment, dropped 0.5%, but remuneration increased 4.9% compared to January last year. Numbers that seem to show positive signs to the sector, but contrast with the reality of many companies and many workers.
Workers of a textile factory in Lousada came to the street last week. Without part of the December salary, with a missing January salary and twelfths in delay since October last year,
The company belongs to the same administrator of Zenaide Confecções, in Penafiel, which last week left almost 100 unemployment workers.
And left almost 70 people without work with salaries and Christmas subsidy overdue. The administration says that the lack of orders justified the company’s closure
Like these there are more cases of factories in the textile sector closing doors, especially to the north where the business has the most strength.
