After visiting a dairy products specializing agribusiness in Vila do Conde, Porto district, Rui Rocha addressed journalists on necessary changes to labor legislation, following his earlier statement expressing intent to review the law.
“It seems evident to me that we need a more flexible approach to collaboration between companies and their employees, as the outcome of this collaboration will undoubtedly bring more wealth to the country,” he stated.
Rocha further remarked that since 2019, “two almost successive legislative packages have come into force, bringing both more and less appropriate measures.”
“Thus, IL’s first notion on this issue is to conduct a review of what has been implemented in these two legislative packages since 2019. To see what worked, what did not, and to determine possible pathways,” he said, emphasizing that now is the “time to undertake this evaluation.”
When questioned about remarks from PS Secretary-General Pedro Nuno Santos, who accused PSD President Luís Montenegro of an “attack on democracy” due to his comments on the CP strike, Rui Rocha reaffirmed that the “right to strike is unquestionable.”
“It is a civilizational achievement of our societies and must be respected,” he noted, but also stressed the need to consider whether people who pay for railway services “do not also deserve consideration.”
“I’m not going to engage in a specific discussion about the strike law. We are open to discussing labor legislation as a whole, as I just mentioned, but there are specific measures that seem to us to be, at the very least, matters of elementary justice,” he advocated.
