Ana Mendes Godinho wants to “position Portugal as a country to work, we have an open door for the people of the CPLP”
Tourism “lost 100,000 workers during the pandemic, will have already recovered about 40,000, there is still 60,000 to be recovered”, stressed Ana Mendes Godinho, Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, at the Summit of the Confederation of Tourism of Portugal (CTP). ), which takes place this Tuesday in Lisbon.
“The tourism needs of all workers, increasingly the point of view of the world of work and the worker pandemic, which are different today”, considered a point of view, emphasizing the “point of view of all workers in the pandemic, which are different today” great challenge to open our tourism, but also the job market to those coming from outside “.
The numbers “are capable of having children”, and show that in the future “62% of young people do not have a permanent contract, which means that they cannot even have children their future, like God, they do not even decide their future”, men show that “62% of young people have a permanent contract”, “professionals, conciliation not under conditions but in personal life and “better reconciliation”
“The lack of manpower is a good problem, we have a lower unemployment rate, at 5.9%, a few years ago I didn’t even think it would be possible”, he said.
To meet the current need for human work, “with people who have resources in Portugal, it’s not enough” and mobility agreements prepared by the government play a key role, underlined the minister.
“We have to position Portugal as a country to work, we have an open door for workers from the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP)”.
One of the first initiatives will take place in Cape Verde, on October 20, which “Portugal will present for the first time offers of employment and with visas to work” – being “to guarantee that it will also know how to be recognized”, and in this field the minister says to count on the efforts of tourism entrepreneurs, the level of accommodation conditions, among others.
“Positive tax discrimination” for companies that increase revenue
Ana Mendes Godinho also highlighted the success of the visa created this month for digital nomads and remote workers in Portugal. “We’re getting a lot of requests from people who want to know about social security.”
The administration also emphasized the objective of the work aimed at tourism in Portugal and workers for young people, and workers for the tourism sectors, through more efficiency and competitiveness that is at the table of Social Dialogue activities.
“We are committed, and we will do everything for young people, and everything will be guaranteed for young people”, guaranteed by Ana Mendes Godinho, a very serious room that in the agreement that is being worked on, with the best worked out, “guarantee positive ” involved with this tax discrimination, and that “because we increase the objective, we have no objective to increase the level of IRS, what we want is to increase the level of IRS”.