Criticism of the proposal to change the Labor Code appeared quickly – but it should be read everything, the government clarifies.
The government wants to make a “Deep Reform” at work in Portugal. On Thursday, the proposal to change the labor legislation has already been approved in the Ministers. In fact, they are of changes.
The reform is called “work XXI” and wants to make labor regimes “that are very rigid” flexible to increase the “competitiveness of the economy and promote the productivity of companies”, justified Maria do Rosário Palma Ramalho, Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security.
The government has already given this document to the social partners. In the middle of the 110 articles, one began to be very commented and contested in recent days: the apparent end of gestational grief.
Concerned is the Labor Code, where it is read that “the worker may miss work due to gestational mourning up to 3 consecutive days“The father is entitled to an equal work pause of 3 consecutive days.
Although a maximum of 3 days in a row to work, there is no salary loss, the worker is not harmed at all.
Socialist women did not like the news: they talk about a “Unmistakable setback”.
Government Explanation
The government has sent a statement to the newsrooms where they reject any setback. On the contrary: “In the event of interruption of pregnancy, the Worker will always be entitled to the license of 14 to 30 dayspursuant to (100 %subsidized) (…) the revocation of the rule results in a more favorable regime to the pregnant woman ”.
That is, the idea of the government is indeed to end the regime of lack of gestational mourning – but Add the family assistance regime to license to interrupt pregnancy.
O gestational mourning no longer having this designation But the mother/father continues to be entitled to miss, but through the license of interruption of pregnancy – which now has “family assistance faults”.
The government guarantees that the new law would even give More days of break to the mother: 14 to 30 days, instead of 3 days. “Uniform the regime,” he claims.
“ Another parent will also be entitled to miss To work up to a limit of up to 15 days, unlike the current three days, ”explained the Ministry of Labor Solidarity and Social Security, in a statement.
“Civic Smart”
Socialist women were not convinced: the 15 -day regime to which the executive refers “There is already and corresponds to a pregnancy interruption license, applicable exclusively to the pregnant woman, through medical evaluation and at any stage of gestation. ”
“A license whose revocation is underway is different: This is an autonomous labor license, paid and without loss of rights, applicable to both parents, in situations of gestational loss until 24 weeks, ”reads in a statement from the National Secretariat of Socialist Women, Equality and Rights.
But here also the government gives another version: the license is longer and is subsidized 100% – there is no loss of rights.
Which points out that the target is also another: disappear the concept of “gestational mourning” is also lose concrete and symbolic rights – The recognition of the emotional pain of early losses disappears, and the woman becomes connected, conditioned, to the logic of the disease or the low medical.
Already this Sunday, new criticisms: Free, Be and Pan accused the government of cruelty and attacking families. Fabian Figueiredo (BE) appealed to the Portuguese: there has to be a “Civic Smart” against this proposal.
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, Zap //
