EMEL workers against changing working conditions



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meThe cause is the decision of the EMAIL to “move workers from workplaces where they have changing rooms and lockers for parking spaces “, forcing workers to come in uniform from home and to be responsible for the material they use to work daily outside of their working hours.

According to the CESP – Trade Union, Office and Service Workers of Portugal, workers of the EMAIL They share parking booths with employees of other companies and no longer have lockers to store your belongings.

“They are not in a condition even to store their personal belongings and they only have one bathroom that is reserved for the use of those who work there,” the union said in a statement.

All this raises serious questions about the trampling of the rights, hygiene and safety of workers, as well as the worsening of the risk of spreading the virus “, defended the CESP, in a statement, stating that a request for inspection and intervention before the Working Conditions Authority (ACT) and the AddressGeneral Health (DGS) and reported this problem to the Councilor for Mobility of the City Counciltimes from Lisbon, Miguel Gaspar, head of the municipal company EMAIL.

Lusa requested a clarification of the EMAIL on the complaint made by the union CESP regarding the lack of working conditions, safety and health of the workers, pending response.

Alerted by EMAIL on “deeply damaging changes […], or in terms of primary rights, health and safety issues, physical security and prevention of contagion of COVID-19-19 ”, the union immediately interceded with the Lisbon municipal company, stating that the response was“ no intention of changing their directions ”.

“With the risk of spreading the disease, and as it is a profession (traffic inspectorrequirement) that is exposed daily in the street and in contact with users, substantially increases the risk of contagion when wearing the uniform from leaving home, public transport, time of service on the street and returning home, which is communicate daily with workers, either their families, “explained the CESP.

In addition to coming to the service in uniform, workers no longer have changing rooms and lockers to store their personal belongings, go to the parking booths, and “everyone is instructed to use the bathroom in the park cabin, until now reserved for construction workers, which raises serious hygiene problems and the possibility of contagion of the virus “.

According to the union, the sanitary facilities in the car parks “are cleaned three times a week and are not prepared for the use of a larger number of workers.”

“Workers do not accept that their rights and health are compromised and they will do everything possible to guarantee dignified and safe working conditions,” reinforced the CESP.

A pandemic COVID-19-19 has already caused more than 1.2 million deaths in more than 48.7 million cases of infection around the world, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

In Portugal, 2,792 people died from 166,900 cases of infection confirmed, according to the most recent Address-General health.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected not end of December of 2019, I Wuhan, a city in central China.

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