At the 1st Ordinary Plenary Session of the Labor Consultative Commission (CCT), the CTA defended the need for this tripartite body to discuss the proposed Private Security Law, which the private sector has been advocating for almost 10 years.
Speaking at the opening session, the President of the CTA, Agostinho Vuma, conveyed the private sector’s concern at the delay in examining this matter, given that private security is one of the sectors that employs the most people and, unfortunately, has been characterized by precarious employment relationships.
The CTA argues that the introduction of the Private Security Law could significantly improve this scenario of precarious labor relations.
Regarding the points listed for this year, the President of the CTA called on the CCT to schedule the sessions taking into account the fact that this year is atypical, in order to ensure that the topics submitted by the social partners are debated and harmonized, given that some of them have been carried over from previous years.
Agostinho Vuma praised the actions underway with a view to regulating the new Labor Law, namely the revision of the Proposal for Regulations on Hiring Foreign Labor, the Proposal for Regulations on Rural Labor, the Proposal for Regulations on Domestic Labor, among others, which demonstrate the government’s commitment to seeking a regulatory framework that is favorable to business development and, therefore, conducive to generating income and employment.
With regard to the Ministry of Transport and Communications’ proposal for the Staggering of Service Hours, the President of the CTA highlighted the merits of the proposal and the benefits it could bring to the fluidity of urban mobility, but it is necessary that, in order to implement it, the proposer harmonizes it with the recommendations issued by the Specialized Technical Subcommittees of the Labour Consultative Commission, with regard to its compliance with current regulations, especially the Labour Law.
With regard to the minimum wage negotiation process, he recommended that the social partners be pragmatic when interpreting the macroeconomic data that will be presented by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. “We all have a sense of the reality of the country we live in,” he said.
