The president of AIMA, Pedro Portugal Gaspar, announced that about 800 visas have been issued for foreign workers in the agricultural sector, under the regulated labor migration protocol.
The agreement, also known as provides for regulated hiring of foreign workers through the five employers confederations that celebrated the protocol.
“The balance is positive and the protocol is making its way,” after being celebrated four months ago, Pedro Portugal Gaspar said in statements to Lusa.
The president of AIMA explained that on Tuesday he met with the to discuss the protocol, having come to the conclusion that there is “About 800 situations already regularized in terms of visa at the intersection between supply and demand” of employment, “In a logic of regulated migration”.
Beyond five confederations that subscribed to the programthey joined more 19 LARGE BUSINESS GROUPSa sign of the adhesion of entrepreneurs, pointed out Pedro Portugal Gaspar.
How do Requests for hiring?
As small companies will be able to make requests for hiring through their sector confederationsbeing required to ensure the teaching of Portuguese language, vocational training and accommodation for new employees.
The official added that this process “begins to gain some quantitative expression” And it is the objective of the guardianship that most of the foreign entries be made through this mechanism.
“Now, we are still regularizing many pending processes, but the system is going to make this path more and more weight,” said Pedro Portugal Gaspar, who will be heard in Parliament in the context of debate on the new law of nationality.
“We cannot confuse the law of nationality as a mechanism for regulating migratory matter,” said the official, showing AIMA’s opening to work with the “legal instruments that exist.”
No last year, to AIMA increased human resources by 9.1%a sign also of the greater attractiveness of the organization.
This reinforcement was done “without having any differentiating measure, that is, without being able to have any additional supplement to attribute to workers”not an external reinforcement of paintings, he stressed.
