Luanda – Members of the National Assembly are due to consider, in general terms, on Thursday, 7, the proposals for the Civil Service and General Labour Laws and the organisation of the Courts of Appeal.
Recently, in an ordinary session of the Council of Ministers, guided by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, the Government approved the new Basic Law of the Civil Service that removes the limit of 35 years of age for the entrance in the Civil Service, making unlimited the access by this criteria, changes the limit of time of the fixed term work contract, known as determined work contract, from 12 to 24 months.
However, it also reduces the weekly working hours to seven and introduces the telework regime, given the dynamics imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, among other innovations.
Speaking to the press at the end of the Parliamentary Leaders’ Conference, chaired by the Speaker of the Parliament, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, MP Manuel Lopes Dembo referred that in the extraordinary session of the 7th, the proposals of legislative authorization to the President of the Republic, as Head of the Government, will also be appreciated.
These are the proposals of the special tax regime for Cabinda province, the termination of the concession awarded to the National Concessionaire for Oil and Gas, under Decree-Law no. 11/07, of 5 October, and the amendment of the Tax Regime Applicable to the Oil Concession in the Maritime Area of Cabinda.
The parliamentarian informed that on the 21st, in an ordinary session, the proposed Law on the Exercise of Television Activity, the organic law of the relationship courts and the basic law of the civil service will go to final vote.
Members will also discuss the draft resolution that approves Angola’s accession to the International Mobile Satellite Communications Organisation Convention, including the amendments of 6 October 2008.
Source: Angola Press News Agency