The President of the Government assured in Ponta Delgada that the Azorean Government maintains the same position on the restitution of the labour of EDA workers, ensuring that the Azores will apply the same solution provided for in the State Budget for 2017 that was approved at the Assembly of Republic.
"We have exactly the same solution as the one provided for in the State Budget with regard to the restitution of rights, namely in matters related to the salaries and income of EDA workers," said Vasco Cordeiro. The President of the Government spoke at the end of an audience with the Committee representing the workers of the Azorean electricity company.
Vasco Cordeiro stressed that, on the part of Workers' Committee, there were some doubts regarding the application of the solutions stipulated in the State Budget in the Region. According to him, "the issues on which there were doubts have been clarified."
"There is a unanimous understanding on what should be done in legal terms," said the President of the Government.