PEO and AKEL are together in the struggles to ensure a minimum wage for all workers, but also basic labour rights, said today the Secretary General of AKEL, Stefanos Stefanou, after a meeting with the leadership of PEO.
The meeting took place at AKEL's offices, in the context of the PEO's contacts with the political parties, with the aim of informing them about the main issues that concern workers today.
In statements after the meeting, the General Secretary of the PEO, Sotiroulla Charalambous, said that the main issue was the course of the debate on the minimum wage. "The PEO is fighting for issues that will take all workers forward. In this context, the debate that has started on the minimum wage is very important," she said.
She explained that the minimum wage should be established in such a way that where there are collective agreements, it should be clarified that the minimum wage for the sector in question is whatever is defined in them.
Particular emphasis was placed on the problems of thousands of workers, especially young people, who are employed under personal contracts, which, as it happens, do not even guarantee basic rights. "A framework and minimum wage, as well as basic rights, must be agreed," Charalambous said, in order to tackle the phenomenon of workers with very low wages, who are driven to the edge of poverty.
For his part, the Secretary General of AKEL, Stefanos Stefanou, said that a constructive discussion was held with the leadership of the PEO "on a very important issue, which has to do with the quality of work and life of workers."
For his part, the Secretary General of AKEL, Stefanos Stefanou, said that a constructive discussion was held with the leadership of the PEO "on a very important issue, which has to do with the quality of work and life of workers. "We fully share the PEO's positions and we are together in this fight to have regulations that take all workers forward," he added. He said that AKEL was contributing to addressing the problems with concrete proposals to give workers the prospect of quality of work and life.
He also said that households are under great pressure due to the government's socio-economic policies, due to poverty, as well as the pandemic, and stressed that the joint struggles of AKEL and PEA concern both the institutionalisation of the minimum wage and the regulation of conditions in the workplace, as well as other rights, such as ATA.
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