Oil crisis is at the origin of the delay in payment of wages.

The oil crisis continues to affect the construction business in Angola, already 80 000 the number of Portuguese workers who finds working in that country but without pay. Many want to return home but no money for the plane ticket has today revealed the Journal News.

Portugal is the second country with the largest presence in the African construction market of which the total of EUR 5.3 billion billed in the area, two thousand are from Angola. However, Angola budget was done at a time when the oil was 76.5 EUR. Now is 44 euros.

Following this crisis, Reis Campos, president of the Portuguese Confederation of Construction and Real Estate, confirms the situation that about 80,000 workers will be without receiving on average there are at least three months. So many who come to Portugal for Christmas no longer think of going back.

“There are 200,000 Portuguese workers to work in row construction in Angola and about 40% have between two and six months’ salary arrears,” the union, which reveals that the Costa Soares company is one that is in this situation .

Despite this, “companies continue to express confidence in this market,” said Reis Campos, who says he believes that the Angolan authorities are not going to pass up this immune situation and that something will for the consequences of this situation are minimized.

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