Socialist MP Maria Begonha said that the PS “does not ride the pandemic to fulfill its electoral program” with regard to teleworking, in an intervention in the parliamentary debate on the topic that was scheduled for this Friday at the initiative of the PAN - People, Animals, Nature, ensuring that the necessary regulation that avoids accidents will always occur in the context of social consultation and listening to workers, both in the public sector, in which the possibility of 25% of the Public Administration in compatible functions is expected to be in teleworking until the end of the legislature, as for private companies.
“The will of the worker is for us the key to the right to telework,” said the MP of the PS, stressing that the “decades and decades of struggles and labor conquests that preceded us” cannot be called into question, through deregulation and loss of rights.
After having heard from the parliamentary leader of the PAN, Inês Sousa Real, criticisms of the absence of the Government, which was not represented in the Assembly of the Republic, Maria Begonha admitted that the violations of workers' rights “are not new problems but have accelerated in this pandemic” and stressed the importance of the right to disconnect in what he described as a 4th Industrial Revolution in which “the unshakeable right to privacy has never been more relevant”.
Admitting that “telework and distance learning reproduce inequalities that already exist”, namely with regard to the housing and technological conditions of workers, Maria Begonha made it clear that she can also contribute to the emancipation of young people and, in particular, for those who have the “double penalty” of living in the Interior of Portugal.
Socialist MP Maria Begonha said that the PS “does not ride the pandemic to fulfill its electoral program” with regard to teleworking, in an intervention in the parliamentary debate on the topic that was scheduled for this Friday at the initiative of the PAN - People, Animals, Nature, ensuring that the necessary regulation that avoids accidents will always occur in the context of social consultation and listening to workers, both in the public sector, in which the possibility of 25% of the Public Administration in compatible functions is expected to be in teleworking until the end of the legislature, as for private companies.
“The will of the worker is for us the key to the right to telework,” said the MP of the PS, stressing that the “decades and decades of struggles and labor conquests that preceded us” cannot be called into question, through deregulation and loss of rights.
After having heard from the parliamentary leader of the PAN, Inês Sousa Real, criticisms of the absence of the Government, which was not represented in the Assembly of the Republic, Maria Begonha admitted that the violations of workers' rights “are not new problems but have accelerated in this pandemic” and stressed the importance of the right to disconnect in what he described as a 4th Industrial Revolution in which “the unshakeable right to privacy has never been more relevant”.
Admitting that “telework and distance learning reproduce inequalities that already exist”, namely with regard to the housing and technological conditions of workers, Maria Begonha made it clear that she can also contribute to the emancipation of young people and, in particular, for those who have the “double penalty” of living in the Interior of Portugal.