Nuno Barata, a member of the Liberal Initiative (IL) in the Azores Parliament, proposed that the regional government “correct and update the pay scales of Portuguese workers employed by the US detachment stationed at the Lajes Base” to “prevent workers from continuing to be paid below the minimum wage in the Azores,” which was unanimously approved yesterday. Nuno Barata wants to “correct an illegal situation” in the light of the labor law that applies in the region, as well as “provide the Regional Government with new strength – the strength of Parliament’s support – so that ‘within the framework of the magistracy of influence and the institutional relationship with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’, it can begin ”to correct and update the salary scales of the workers in the service of the American detachment.

In Correio dos Açores, Natalino Viveiros-director

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