The Federation has handed in a petition signed by over 40,000 persons calling for the replacement of the 40 hour week introduced in accordance with troika period stipulations.
Authorities have already confirmed its imminent demise.
Currently, legislative proposals submitted by the Left Block and Green Parties would see the schedule come into effect within five working days of the legislation being published, whilst a Communist Party proposal provides for a 30 day period of implementation.
In turn, the Socialist Party proposal provides for a 35-hour work week to come into effect in the second half of this year.
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First, why in the world is Portugal RAISING the workweek in the age of robotics?! That just concentrates more of the natural market-demanded employment on fewer potential consumer-spenders and induces economic downturn. Second, if you want Portugal to lead the world in sustainable prosperity, you need two blindingly obvious design features: #1. incentivize convertingOvertimeIntoJobs.org and if that doesn't deliver full employment and its desirable "byproducts" (=maximization of domestic consumer spending & monetary circulation & MARKETABLE productivity & stable investments), then #2. start trimmingTheWorkweek.org until it does! This is not rocket science and it's high time employers started looking two moves ahead in chess and stopped trying to get Growth = UPsizing by DOWNsizing. Also, how about connecting the dots between your employers and your customers' customers?!
Cut your workforce and you cut your markets = "Suicide, everyone else first."
By MrTimesizingCom from USA on 13 Jan 2016, 23:06