António Leitão Amaro announced that the Government keeps “the door open to complete the negotiation” on the proposed revision of the labor law.
At the press conference after the weekly meeting at the end of the Council of Ministers, António Leitão Amaro was asked about the position of the UGT National Secretariatwhich rejected the current proposal to review changes to labor legislation presented by the Government and called for negotiations to continue.
“We will await the receipt of the official UGT position and we can say that the Government has the door open to complete the negotiation”, he stated.
UGT alleges “insufficient negotiating approach”
This Thursday, the UGT national secretariat rejected the current proposal to review changes to labor legislation presented by the Government and calls for negotiations to continue.
O “finds that there is still insufficient negotiating rapprochement and states that the proposal does not yet allow us to reach consensus”, reads the resolution approved unanimously today.
The trade union federation led by Mário Mourão also emphasizes that it is this “position” that will be transmitted at the Social Concertation plenary meeting, “where the next step must be taken in this negotiation process”.
