29/09/06 - Cape Verde to regulate working contracts for foreigners PDF Print E-mail
ImageThe government of Cape Verde plans to regulate the working contracts of foreign workers in the country's new Labor Code, which aims to make the archipelago’s labor legislation more flexible in order to increase employment and the competitiveness of companies. The Labor Code law, which is due to be handed in to parliament for discussion, after having been approved by the Council of Ministers last week, will also establish specific regimes for teleworking, apprenticeships and domestic workers, amongst others.
“The Code will deal with situations that were left out of labor legislation,” said government spokesperson, Cristina Fontes Lima, in a press conference, cited by the local press.

With the new legislation, she added, the government planned to, “”allow labor relations that promote company competitiveness and employment considering the unemployed who need to access the labor market."

The beginning of the discussion of the new Code is expected to take place in November, the government said in a statement published in Praia.

Fontes Lima also said that the project aimed to give employers greater capacity for qualification and mobility of workers, “an effort to make work relations more flexible, without making them more precarious.”
 
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