Portuguese Hospitality Association expects advances in simplifying the hiring of foreign workers – Observer
The Portuguese Hospitality Association (AHP) said this Wednesday that it hopes that the new Government will move forward in simplifying the processes of hiring foreign workers, one of the solutions aimed at responding to the lack of manpower in the sector.
In statements, the executive president of the AHP, Cristina Siza Vieira, who considered that no process of legislative simplification, which is under discussion with the current executive, would represent “an inexplicable delay and that harm the country’s economy and companies“.
“Right now, foreigners law is highly complex“, he referred to some points of the association, adding that the leader in the meetings with the Government “may point out points that mark in altering these procedures for directors”.
A, hiring is not one of the solutions to subordinate the association of workers in the hotel industry and, at this fair, a realization in the clarification session on “sense visas” that will have the Directorate-General for Consular Affairs and Portuguese Communities (DGACCP ).
The initiative takes place after AHP met, at the end of last year, with the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities on the current legal framework for hiring foreigners.
At these meetings, it was also study the mobility agreement with the CPLP — Community of Portuguese Languages awaiting ratification, a process that stopped with the convening of the Language Countries and was brought forward by legislation.
With the fall of the Assembly of the Republic, the new attempts of the Assembly of the Republic will have to be fulfilled for the configuration of the masses to understand how this passage will be defined, namely the passage of the ratification of the agreement with the CPLP, said Cristina.
The executive president of AHP said that 2019 was indicated by the association that has warned to indicate to which the company works in the sector, a Covid-19 pandemic later aggravated the problem.
On November 10, the president of AHP, Raul Martins, said in an interview with Público newspaper that they are trying to “create labor delivery flows with country specifications, from the outset with those that make up the CPLP [Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa]” Worker insurance in the sector, to paste security.
Also, the president of Vila Galé told Lusa that the missing group18 would have a debater with the human resources in the hotel, construction and agriculture sector, with plans to hire 30 resources in search of the former and 150 human resources in the hotel, construction and agriculture sector. worker from Brazil, but who for that it would be necessary to work with the ministries of Economy and Labour.
On September 24, the Portuguese Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, said in New York that the CPLP mobility agreement, already ratified by Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, would enter into force “very quickly.” ”.
The mobility agreement was signed in Luanda, on 17 July, at the XIII Conference of Heads of State of Government of the CPLP and in which Angola assumed a president of the organization 2023.