Angola disponibiliza dinheiro para pagar salários a expatriados

16 Dezembro 2015, 10:16 por Celso Filipe | cfilipe@negocios.pt

O Banco Nacional de Angola vendeu à banca comercial 62 milhões de dólares (56,2 milhões euros), para que esta possa fazer a cobertura de operações de salários dos trabalhadores expatriados.

O Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA) disponibilizou, no espaço de uma semana, 62 milhões de dólares (56,2 milhões de euros) aos bancos comerciais, montante destinado à cobertura de operações de salários dos expatriados, noticiou a agência Lusa.

Nas últimas semanas têm sido recorrentes as queixas de portugueses a trabalharem em Angola com salários em atraso. No final de Novembro, o Sindicato da Construção Civil (STC) denunciou ao Jornal de Notícias que cerca de 80 mil trabalhadores portugueses deste sector tinha salários em atraso em Angola, entre dois e seis meses. O STC estima que existam 200 mil portugueses a trabalhar no sector da construção civil, sendo que todos os meses estarão a abandonar este país cerca de 500 trabalhadores.

No total, calcula-se que mais de 250 mil portugueses estejam a trabalhar em Angola, nos mais diversos sectores de actividades, sobretudo concentrados na província da Luanda, a capital do país.

Além de ter disponibilizado dólares para o pagamento de salários, o BNA vendeu à banca comercial 87,4 milhões de dólares (79,3 milhões de euros) para pagar operações de telecomunicações e 48,7 milhões de dólares (44,2 milhões de euros) para cobertura de operações de companhias aéreas.

Somadas estas três rubricas, o BNA injectou 356,1 milhões de dólares (323,4 milhões de euros) na última semana, um aumento de 215% face ao realizado na semana anterior. "Este volume de divisas destinou-se fundamentalmente à cobertura de operações de natureza prioritária", explicou o BNA no seu relatório semanal.

Um relatório da Moody’s, publicado a 15 de Dezembro, aponta Angola como o país da África subsaariana mais afectado pelo aumento da dívida denominada em moeda estrangeira. Uma situação que resulta da dependência de Angola face ao petróleo, , cuja produção e exportação valia mais de 75% das receitas fiscais e representava mais de 95% das exportações do país antes da crise

The Source:http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/mundo/africa/angola/detalhe/angola_disponbiliza_dinheiro_para_pagar_salarios_a_expatriados.html

Comment:

"Canada beats Angola for the gold medal in the

exploitation of skilled European construction workers

Europe exports a lot of skilled construction trades workers. This is no surprise given the tradition and training of Europe’s skilled trades.

Until recently, Canada and Angola stood 1-2 in to refusing to follow the rules in paying their European construction workers.  

The attached article confirms that President Santos’ family kleptrocracy in Luanda has thrown in the towel. Canada has won the race. Canada rules over European trades workers as the biggest thief on the planet.

Each of the 80,000 European workers in Angola had a legal work permit.

Angola will now pay their 80,000 European workers. President Santos, his daughter and their related corrupt intermediaries clearly buckled under political pressure from Europe.

When it comes to scamming European workers, the Angolans could have learned a lot from Canada’s champions:

Canada’s first rule is to deny the existence of a skilled labour shortage in the construction sector. The existentially absurd fairy tale from Ottawa is that there is no shortage of qualified skilled construction trades workers in Canada. Since there is no shortage, there is no need for work permits.

Canada‘s second rule is to deny the existence of Ontario’s 100,000 skilled European construction workers. Since Canada does not issue work permits to 99.9% of the trades workers, therefore they do not exist. Since they do not exist, there are no statistics confirming their existence. If there are no statistics then there is no problem.

Canada’s third rule follows up on the concept of “non-existence”. Since the 150,000 European construction workers do not exist, then how can Canadian employers and unions pay them a fair wage, overtime or  pension benefits? You can’t pay someone who does not exist. Since you can’t pay them, you have every right to, annually, pocket the $ 2 billion.

Canada’s fourth rule is to be compassionate. We feel sorry for the 150,000 European construction workers. Thus, we declare Toronto and Hamilton to be “sanctuary cities”. This compassion assures that most of the illegal Europeans will not be deported during construction season. After all, deportation would hurt the big contractors and unions. A little “compassion” pays big dividends.

Canada’s fifth rule is to keep changing the work permit and immigration rules for trades workers. The constant change guarantees that 99.99% of European trades workers will eventually be illegal and deportable.  

Canada’s sixth, and most culturally innovative, rule is to blame the European construction workers for exploiting Canada’s immigration and foreign worker rules. Ottawa is without equal in faking sincerity when it, with a straight face, demands respect for the “integrity of the system”. Ottawa knows that its role on behalf of Ontario’s big contractors and unions is to assure that there is no “integrity” and no “system”.   

The Santos family in Angola lost the theft game to Canada because of a fatal flaw in Angolan “democracy”. The Angolans exposed themselves by allowing the President’s family to “take envelopes” from the construction industry.

In Canada, we do not need a direct, illegal Presidential envelope system. It’s messy. Instead, we have a two-step process:

First, the construction industry makes big political contributions.

Second, the construction industry’s government relations consultants sit in the Minister’s office making sure that every law in the book is broken in order to assure that European workers remain illegal. After all, for $2 billion why not allow few consultants into the room to help in pointing out which laws are irrelevant?

Our African brothers have a lot to learn about stealing while, concurrently, “maintaining the integrity of the system”.

With time, Angola may embrace the above finer points and once can again challenge Canada’s undisputed 30 year leadership in the big time scamming of European workers.

Congratulations Canada!"

Richard Boraks, December 17 2015