According to trade unionists in Bahia, Petrobras' current management insists on basing its actions on arbitrary, unilateral and illegal decisions.

Bahia: Petrobras will have to pay shift oil workers all additional payments guaranteed in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (ACT) for the category. The state-owned company will also have to negotiate with the unions any changes it intends to make in relation to what is agreed in the ACT. Petrobras will give access to other gas producers to its processing units.

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This was the decision of labor judge Giselli Gordiano, from the 8th Labor Court of Salvador (TRT- 5th Region) who granted Sindipetro the request for urgent relief determining that Petrobras “refrain from changing the working conditions provided for in its corporate internal standard PP-1PBR-00515”.

In her decision, released yesterday (27), the judge ordered Petrobras to immediately suspend the reduction in wages and the cut in rights and benefits imposed by the company's management on workers in Bahia who work in the administrative regime and those in the operational area who were transferred to administrative jobs because of the covid-19 pandemic.

The decision applies to all employees “even when active in an administrative/teleworking regime, in the months of April, May and June 2020, or any subsequent periods under the same conditions, pursuant to the above grounds.”

The judge also determined that the discounted amounts be deposited on the salary advance sheet for the month of June 2020, with full payment of salaries.

A “daily fine in the amount of 10 reais was also imposed, in the event of non-compliance with any determinations”.

According to union members, Petrobras' current management insists on basing its actions on arbitrary, unilateral and illegal decisions. But it will not find support in the Sindipetros and in the FUP.

With each illegal decision, the legal advice of Sindipetro Bahia will take action to ensure that justice is done. This has been our procedure that will continue to be put into practice.

In the month of May alone, Sindipetro, through its legal advisory, already obtained three injunctions that suspended the illegal and abusive measures taken by the management of Petrobras: suspension of payment of the AMS via bank slip, suspension of the reduction in wages and working hours of the ADM and also the return of payment of all additional payments for shift workers, guaranteed in the ACT.