The Portuguese Confederation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CPPME) regrets that the managers and administrators of SMEs have been left out of the new simplified 'lay-off' and defends their inclusion in the new regime.
CPPME says that the “thousands of micro entrepreneurs” are currently “without any support” and defends their inclusion in the regime launched by the Government last week to protect jobs.
The simplified 'lay-off' is an exceptional and temporary measure that allows companies to temporarily reduce their normal working hours or suspend their employment contract, in the context of the covid-19 disease pandemic.
The measure was approved on Thursday by the Council of Ministers and published in a supplement to the Diário da República, to take effect on Friday.
The CPPME thus proposes to the executive that the new 'lay off' regime guarantees “the full payment of support (assured by transfer from the State Budget), both for the worker and the managing partner, with a contributory career in Social Security”.
The CPPME reaffirms that the measures announced “on the one hand continue to be insufficient, on the other hand they challenge the bureaucracy installed at the most varied levels of Public Administration”.
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