Portuguese Government imposes wage increase

Portugal

Our SINTAP contact also reports that the government has imposed a 1,5% pay increase for all the public services workers. By doing this the socialist government has violated ILO conventions and the Portuguese public collective law. During the negotiations the Government rejected all the trade unions proposals. After this decision, FESAP/UGT asked for a further negotiations in order to minimise the 7.9% lost of purchasing power that the public service workers have suffered since 1998.

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