In Macau, casino workers reportedly joined a protest yesterday over a government plan that would change the city’s Labour Relations Law so as to offer private business companies the right to ask their employees to operate over ‘compulsory ’ public holidays.
Sizeable audience:
According to a report from GGRAsia, roughly 1,000 people gathered from the former Portuguese enclave on Sunday afternoon to voice their opposition to the projected legislative change amid fears that the alteration can cause them losing money and being prevented from spending some time with family members and friends.
Holiday forfeiture possibility:
The source reported that the proposed alteration to the Labour Relations Law would allow non-state employers to require staff members to designate three ‘compulsory ’ public holidays each year as normal workouts. In exchange, such employees would have the ability to be given a trio of regular days off in lieu even though their remuneration would remain unaltered.
As currently written, Macau’s Labour Relations Law requires private sector employers to honor all ‘compulsory ’ public holidays although staff members that are paid monthly can decide to work in trade for a further evening ’s pay. Such workers are also purportedly eligible for compensatory rest day within one month although this can be voluntarily surrendered in exchange for a daily rate of remuneration.
Added demands:
GGRAsia added that the protest, which was organized from the New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association, moreover asked the government to designate Christmas Day as a ‘compulsory ’ people vacation and increase the current minimum amount of weekly falsified rest days from one to 2.
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