tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post2642909514150539374..comments2024-03-24T06:35:14.281+00:00Comments on The Portuguese Economy: Firm (but not too strong) labour cutsEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16779405217168307855noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-19083762460059711342011-05-12T17:17:46.268+01:002011-05-12T17:17:46.268+01:00I think "Weak labour law reform" should ...I think "Weak labour law reform" should be the more appropriate title to the blog entry. <br /><br />When you say that the current law is particularly strict, I assume you mean it is strict for the employers, the people actually credited for creating jobs.<br /><br />One of the major weaknesses of the European economies and in particular the Portuguese is the unfriendly nature of doing business. Job-creators are faced with unflexible laws that keep them from quickly staffing up their new startups or ventures; likewise they are not able to quickly terminate redundant, incompetent or lazy employees. <br /><br />This excessive labour protection laws result in a lagging and weak economy that ultimately harms employees as it keeps their wages and opportunities low.<br /><br />Employees are free to quit, strike, or otherwise cease their work, likewise Entrepreneurs and businesses should be free to discharge individuals for good cause, or bad cause, or no cause at all.Oscar-ERPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05013914498429052480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-49667051989788896272011-05-09T14:16:26.678+01:002011-05-09T14:16:26.678+01:00I think most people - in particular international ...I think most people - in particular international readers - would say that the law on dismissals for cause, as it currently stands - barely unchanged since 1975 -, is particularly strict already: a worker needs to behave in such an extremely serious way that the employment relationship becomes immediately and virtually impossible.<br /><br />(In the original version - "Constitui justa causa de despedimento o comportamento culposo do trabalhador que, pela sua gravidade e consequências, torne imediata e praticamente impossível a subsistência da relação de trabalho.") <br /><br />There is a still huge difference between the new version of the law proposed by the troika and dismissals at will.Pedro S. Martinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00862169990597091955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120478448417742445.post-89025759517259891532011-05-07T11:32:38.033+01:002011-05-07T11:32:38.033+01:00"e.g. when worker does not meet objectives ag..."e.g. when worker does not meet objectives agreed in advance for reasons of the worker's responsibility"<br /><br />No room for abuse here \sarcasm<br /><br />In order to get any job in this economy workers will agree to all sorts of absurd objectives, hence putting themselves totally at the discretion of the employer when they inevitably fail to achieve them.<br /><br />The only honest position here is to say bluntly we have decided to end any concept of job security. Put in that way it is an arguable position, but to hide it in plain sight is just ugly and only gives unproductive work to the parasitic lawyers who carefuly scribble those contracts.António Araújohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03059765930331992020noreply@blogger.com