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The Government will suspend the various corporate agreements of the TAP group for a period of four years, within the framework of the airline’s restructuring plan, Correio da Manhã reported in this Monday’s edition. The government’s decision was communicated to the unions by infrastructure minister Pedro Nuno Santos during meetings the executive held with workers’ representatives last week.
The different company agreements in force in the TAP group, which frame the labor relations between the carrier and its workers in aspects that go beyond the labor legislation itself, such as specific rules on salary adjustments, payment of overtime, duration working hours or others will be suspended in the next four years, but Pedro Nuno Santos guarantees that the impact on workers’ wages will be gradual.
The suspension of labor agreements will allow workers’ wages to be cut. The minister will have assured the unions that these cuts are gradual up to a maximum of 25%. The decree-law that will regulate the suspension of corporate contracts in the carrier will only be known after the approval of the TAP restructuring plan in Parliament.
In his usual space for comments in the SIC, Luís Marques Mendes guaranteed this Sunday that the Government wants a vote in Parliament on the airline’s restructuring plan, which provides for the dismissal of two thousand workers and wage cuts of 25% for the rest. After being approved in Brussels, “the Government will want to take this plan to debate and vote in the Assembly of the Republic”, said Luís Marques Mendes, in the SIC, guaranteeing that “it has already informed the PSD, as the main opposition party” .
The commentator considers that the option “is correct, because it will involve state money until 2023 and, therefore, it is better to define the rules of the game from the beginning.” However, he points out that “it is risky”, since “the Government does not have a majority in Parliament.” If the plan is unsuccessful, he warns, “it is the end of TAP.”
