The CGTP trade union has called for demonstrations in Lisbon and Porto against the draft revision of labour legislation on 20 September, calling for workers to mobilise against what it calls "an assault on rights" and an "affront to the Constitution." For the CGTP, the Government’s preliminary draft for revising labour legislation “attacks a wide series of rights”, containing, in particular, proposals that “aim to perpetuate and worsen low wages, promote the deregulation of working hours, multiply the reasons and extend the deadlines for precarious contracts, facilitate dismissals and limit the defence and reintegration of workers”.
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