President Luis Lacalle Pou ruled on the reduction of the workday and stated that “just as it is proposed” it is not possible, referring to the proposal of the PIT-CNT, which seeks to install the issue in the Salary Councils.
Anyway, Lacalle Pou He did not close the door on the reform by stating: “We are open to discuss.” However, he put a fundamental condition to give the debate: “You have to be discussing three things at the same time: the working day, productivity and salary.”
At a press conference, the president stated that if the three factors are not taken into account at the same time “it is not fair or logical”. With these statements, he put the magnifying glass on the position of the union central manifested during the partial general strike of Tuesday, which he described as “routine.”
It is worth remembering that the President of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdala, called to talk about “reduction” of the working day. Although he anticipated that it does not necessarily imply moving to 6-hour days, he recalled that since 1915 “productivity changed.”
abdala justified the idea by stating that “all practical and international experiences establish that when you reduce the working day, maintaining the salary, there is no negative impact on the productivity; on the contrary, it is the other way around” for what he called “a change in working time, not only the reduction of the working day, it is the organization of working time in its different dimensions”.
Lacalle Pou responded to Fernando Pereira’s criticism
In turn, consulted by the words of the President of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, who pointed out that the national administration could not meet its initial objectives, Lacalle Pou He responded: “He does his job, which is to criticize the government, and he does it stubbornly. We try to talk about objective concepts and criteria.”
“If the president of the broad front He says this with respect to this government, what does he say with respect to his government?”, questioned the president and compared: “In his government he ended up with a fiscal deficit of almost 5% and more than 10% unemployment. Destroying jobs.” “If we use the objective rod, he would have to speak badly of his government, if he speaks badly of ours,” he said.
Source: Ambito
