Correios de Portugal are hiring postmen for the summer
CTT – Correios de Portugal is hiring postmen for the summer with temporary contracts of three to seven months, the company announced today in a statement.
According to CTT, the 18 driving cycles must have at least 9th grade of schooling and a driving license (driving preferentially).
“Contracts may vary between three and seven months and communication contracts, the course for the various operational centers in mainland Portugal and islands, for distribution, production and no months functions and distribution, production and no months functions” , the company said in a statement, indicate how many people it intends to hire for the summer.
CTT also says that it will reinforce the availability of CTT Expresso’s Operational Centers to work at different times.
CTT workers will be on partial strike for two this Wednesday (25th) for the increase in years and better working conditions.
The Federation of Transport and Communications Unions (Fectrans), which announced a strike, said that workers do not accept a salary increase of 7.5 euros proposed by CTT, “which has not had any year 38 million profit”.
Employees at the Santa Maria da Feira postal distribution center (Aveiro district) have been on strike since Friday of the week until the 27th, according to the National Union of Posts and Telecommunications (SNTCT).
“The post office is bad all over the country, but Santa Maria da Feira is a different case, as it is chaotic. in parallel, because there are a lot of people on vacation or on sick leave, now everything is worse, the mail is piling up and that diverts to be delivered within one to three working days, it started to take a week and even two”, he said. Lusa the regional and national leader of the SNTCT António Pereira.
Questioned by the delivery of CTT weeks, the pressure for a postal restriction pressure in the municipality, which after two weeks of distribution, aggravated in the last infections with additional covid on the normal functioning of the network “.
The determined direction, however, CTT is from the first day trying to mitigate this situation, providing the temporary resource to hire more employees” and that “the situation should be regularized soon”.
CTT mail delivery has complaints from local authorities in various parts of Portugal.
In 2021, CTT made a profit of 38.4 million euros, more than double the 16.7 million euros recorded in 2020. In the first quarter of this year, profits were 5.4 million euros, 38.1% less compared to the same period last year.
According to an official source, CTT employs 12,015 people in Portugal, operating a company in 2,356 CTT Points and more than 5,000 Payshop agents.