For Manuel Viage, who praises the Government's recent announcement on the revision of the LGT, approved in 2015, the current law breaks the conclusion of open-ended contracts for permanent jobs and this clause "should be included in the revised law".
The forms of compensation for unfair dismissals and the compensation for additional work or overtime work under the current law "are discordant and fractious issues for unions since the genesis of Law 07/15."
"The revision of the LGT is an issue that workers have defended since the law itself was conceived, in the negotiations that the Government held with its social partners, in particular the unions we have always had the said issues as fracturing," said Manuel Viage in statements to Lusa.
According to the UNTA-CS secretary-general, matters related to collective dismissal, social protection in illness, the obligation of precedence in the resolution of conflicts there is a mediation are other "discordant points and that should be reviewed."
"Fortunately our clamor was heard by the President of the Republic about two months ago and, because of this, a technical commission was created that is trying to produce the legal grounds that may lead to the revision of the law," he stressed.
The announcement about the LGT revision was recently made by the Secretary of State for Labor and Social Security, Pedro Filipe, who is also the coordinator of the technical commission for this purpose.
The preparation of reports, level with the technical commission, that will lead the revision of the Angolan General Labor Law "should take place until next December", according to Manuel Viage, admitting that the revision of the legal diploma will take place in 2022.
"Therefore, there is not yet a revision as such, but the presuppositions are being created so that this revision may be done, now not only with the arguments adduced and advanced by the unions but also as from some specialists connected to the labor law," remarked the union leader.
Besides some ministerial departments, the technical commission for the revision of the Angolan LGT is also a member of UNTA-CS, the Central Geral de Sindicatos Independentes e Livres de Angola (CGSILA) and other social partners of the Angolan Government.
