An initiative proposing criteria for accessing roles with rapid attrition, including extreme temperatures, poor sanitation, high noise levels, high risk of incapacitating injury, and a high risk of death, was rejected by the PSD, PS, and CDS-PP benches.
Alongside this, today saw votes on various opposition party resolutions recommending that the Government revise the legal framework for professions with rapid attrition. Initiatives from PAN, Chega, BE, and PCP were all rejected.
Only an alternative initiative from PAN, aimed at updating legislation on occupational diseases, gained approval.
In another rejected resolution, PAN suggested the Government establish a working group to modify the legal framework for rapid attrition professions.
The resolution from Chega, also rejected, recommended that the Government conduct an assessment of which professions should be considered for rapid attrition status.
BE presented a resolution, also denied, seeking recognition for rapid attrition professions and defining “more favorable social and labor protection measures for workers.”
The PCP, whose proposal was also turned down, recommended that the Government establish and regulate a specific labor and retirement regime for industry workers.
These initiatives followed the discussion of a petition demanding recognition for metallurgical and other industrial activities as rapid attrition professions, allowing workers access to early retirement without penalties.
The petition, launched by the Federation of Metallurgical, Chemical, Electrical, Pharmaceutical, Pulp, Paper, Graphic, Energy, and Mining Industries (Fiequimetal), has over 13,000 signatures.
On the day the petition was discussed in plenary, Thursday, around 400 industry workers gathered in front of the Assembly of the Republic building, demanding legislative changes.
“The law currently only covers a specific set of professions, such as miners […], and our goal is to extend the legislation to another group of workers,” stated Rogério Silva, Fiequimetal coordinator, to Lusa.
