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Companies do not want to change these practices, but are willing to review percentages, as the PS suggests in the electoral program.
The national minimum wage is discussed by all political parties, but outside the ribalt is the law that allows half of this amount to be paid in kind. In fact, the Labor Code does not require the 870 euros to be paid on base salary, and there are several ways the payment can be made.
The minimum remuneration, according to the, “includes the value of installment in kind, namely food or accommodationdue to the worker in return for his normal work ”.
This amount discriminates against the law, however, cannot exceed 35% for full food, 12% for accommodation or 27.36 euros per floor for worker and family housing.
This issue was raised in, which proposes that “they create conditions for revisit the concept of minimum monthly remuneration guaranteed provided for in labor legislation, in order to clarify the components that integrate it ”.
However, companies are not interested in ending the payment modality. Thus assures Cristina Morais, chief of staff of the direction of CAP (Business Confederation of Farmers).
“We can probably discuss the percentages. Generally speaking, in the future, most employing entities will have to dwell because the state has not designed a plan for it, ”he says.“ They seem out of the current prices ”:“12% for worker accommodation was when the accommodation was cheap“.
The bosses want, therefore, that housing replaces more than the 12% that currently constitute the limit.
CTP, business confederation of tourism, considers that “being by agreement, there is no problem“With this type of payment.” People are sovereign to accept or not the proposal. “
Armindo Monteiro, president of the Portugal Business Confederation, admits: “Housing can have a higher cost“. Payment in kind, he explains, increases when” home lace “, particularly” in a rural environment or in small villages in the interior. “
