ENCERRAMENTO
José Belo*
Com as jornadas jurídicas do trabalho, percorremos, ao longo destes três dias, os caminhos da evolução do direito laborai em diversas partes do Mundo. No decurso desta viagem houve lugar a momentos de paragem para reflexão e troca de experiências, que muito aproveitarão aos objectivos que estiveram na base da organização destas sessões de trabalho — o aperfeiçoamento e estruturação do ordenamento jurídico de Macau.
E, se, no contexto desse ordenamento jurídico, o direito laborai representa, hoje, ainda uma pequena parcela, a sua inegável importância recomenda e exige que nos empenhemos na sua valorização e no aperfeiçoamento e reforço dos seus comandos. E, exige-o, na razão directa da nobreza do esforço que persegue — a realização da justiça social.
Tenho por isso, antes do mais, de agradecer a vossa prestimosa colaboração nesta tão delicada tarefa que em Macau se tem por imperiosa e urgente. Macau, após 1999, reger-se-á ao longo dos 50 anos seguintes pelo direito que entretanto for capaz de construir e cimentar.
E, a essa luz, a urgência de iniciativas como esta torna-se ainda mais candente, se pensarmos nas carências existentes e na escassez de tempo que nos resta para as suprir com dignidade.
Aliás, as conclusões, cuja leitura acabamos de ouvir, irão certamente servir de estímulo e mobilização para a realização de acções similares tendo em conta a necessidade de, neste como noutros domínios, andarmos depressa e bem.
As questões abordadas, como resulta das conclusões, não se restringiram ao contrato de trabalho, mas transbordaram para o social e para a própria política de trabalho, aumentando por isso o
interesse destas jornadas e sobretudo valorizando os seus resulta- dos, que permitirão, estou certo, nesta terra única, onde o Oriente e o Ocidente se encontram há mais de quatrocentos anos, a maior aproximação entre os especialistas votados às grandes questões sócio-laborais com que o Mundo se debate.
A terminar agradeço, por isso, o empenhamento de todos os participantes destas jornadas que pelo seu carácter aberto fez com que se tenha dado a desejável interpenetração entre os diversos temas, fossem eles do Oriente ou do Ocidente.
Namber 8/9 (2nd and 3rd 1990) • Volume m • October 1990
INDEX
LABOUR LEGISLATION IN MACAU
Reports presented to the
I Seminar on Labour Legislation organized by the Department of Labour and Employment
(5th, 6th and 7th December 1989)
INTRODUCTION
595 Introduction
Maria do Carmo Romão
597 I Seminar on Labour Legislation: opening speech
José Belo
LABOUR RELAT1ONS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION
601 Labour Relations in the Asia Pacific Region: Trends and Issues
Carmelo C. Noriel
THE STANDING COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL STANDARDS
617 The Standing Committee for Social Standards
António Ramos Preto
THE LABOUR CONTRACT
627 The Structure of the Individual Labour Contract in Macau
António dos Santos Ramos
635 Remuneration
Victor Ramalho
645 The Arrangement of Working Time within the Labour Contract
Yeung Chi Kin
651 Suspension of the Labour Contract
José Belo, Ana Salvado, Camilo Ribeirinha, Jorge Bruxo e Vitorino Luzio
663 Tennination of the Labour Contract
669 The Individual Work Contract in Portugal and in Macau
Manuel Mota Botelho
677 Termination of the Labour Contract in the SEZ of Shenzhen — It's Beginning, Coordination and Treatment
Zheng Qihai
683 Duration and Choices of Labour Contract in the Special Economic Zone of Zhuhai
Chan I Heng
PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THE LABOUR CONTRACT
689 Possibilities and Difficulties in Applying Labour Lagislation in the Construction Sector
Cheong Chu Kei
691 Work Relations in Macau
Wan Chuen
695 Contracts in Labour Industry
António Chui
699 Some Important Aspects on the Fulfillment of the Labour Contract by Employers and Workers
Chui Sai Cheong
CONCLUSIONS
705 l Seminar on Labour Legislation: Conclusions
707 l Seminar on Labour Legislation: closing speech
Adminisatração, n.° 8/9, vol. III, 1990-2.°-3.°, 595-596
INTRODUCTION
1. It is not an overstatement to reaffirm the importance achieved by the Seminar on Legislation for Labour and Employment, carried out in Macau during the period of 5 and 7 of December of last year, in which several subjects of great acuity for the labour field were discussed, such as those of retribution, of labour relationship in the Region of Asia-Pacific, of individual work contract and of the duration of the working hours, subjects which thorough treatment is perfectly demonstrated by the Communications issued and which the promoters decided now to publish.
The increasing importance that, in worlwide levei, the subjects related with Labour and Employment are achieving derives from the progressive valorization which is being attributed to them in the ideological scope, as an expression of the human personality, an efficient cause of the command of man on nature and on the changes in the world, in the social-economical field, by its implication in the production and in the creation of assets in the political plan, and for the increasing importance that, in the major part of the countries the labourers are conquering assuming or not themselves as «working classes».
2. The prominence of these matters may, also, be evaluated by the increasing development that the labour laws are achieving, either for their contribution in the reduction of social strains, as it is envisaged for these laws to establish adequate rules to solve, or at least, to limit those conflicts, or as an instrument for the definition of working conditions or still, and finally, by force of its structure based on a fundamental teleological element: the protection of labour and of the labourer.
Reflecting — as it was pointed out by the Regional Counselor for the International Labour Organization for the Labour Relationship — Mr. Carmelo C. Noriel — a concern shared by OIT, having in mind the gradual betterment of the working conditions and of the living stahdards and the promotion of the principie of social justice, the Seminar on Labour Legislation and Employment has enabled a particular analysis of the tendencies and problems of the labour relationship in the Region of Asia-Pacific, having this realization
constituted an important step for the treatment of the subjects discussed and to bring closer countries, territories and economical áreas of the Region.
3. Therefore, it is considered as extremely successful the initiative of the Direction of Labour and Employment Services, for the excellent results achieved. Undertakings of this nature in such
important domains — as those of Labour and
Employment—present unquestionable advantages derived from the exchanging of distinctive experiences by those who share common problems and from which they can only retrieve benefíts, in where concerns, mainly, the profound scientifíc study of the subjects and the approximation of the legal solutions encountered.
Maria do Carmo Romão The Under-Secretary for Health and Social Affairs
Adminisatração, n.° 8/9, vol. III, 1990-2.°-3.°, 597-598