SITRA joins the company agreement of Horários do Funchal, which covers the original 2019 agreement and four amendments and revisions published up to 2026.
The Sindicato dos Trabalhadores dos Transportes (SITRA) is now covered by the company agreement signed between Horários do Funchal - Transportes Públicos, S.A. and SNMOT, through an accession agreement published in the Jornal Oficial da Região Autónoma da Madeira (JORAM) on 4 November 2026. In practice, Horários do Funchal workers who are members of SITRA, or who join during the term of the agreement, are covered by this company agreement.
Accession is a mechanism provided for in Article 504 of the Labour Code, approved by Law No. 7/2009 of 12 February, which allows a union that did not sign a collective agreement to join it. In this case, SITRA expressly joins the company agreement (AE) signed between Horários do Funchal (HF) and SNMOT. The document refers to SNMOT only by its acronym, without spelling it out.
The agreement was signed in Funchal on 23 October 2026. On behalf of HF, a company headquartered at Travessa da Fundoa de Baixo, No. 5, 9020-242 Funchal, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Intendente Marco Aurélio Fernandes Lobato, and the Board Member, Eng. Bruno Desidério Pinto Correia de Sousa, signed. On behalf of SITRA, headquartered at Rua de Macau, 4 - Loja E, 2620-048 Olival Basto, signed Francisco Jorge dos Santos Oliveira, President of the Board, Samuel Afonso Fernandes Costa, Vice-President, and Manuel Jorge Mendes de Oliveira, Board Member.
The original company agreement was published in JORAM, III Series, No. 4, of 19 February 2019. The accession covers the original agreement and the four amendments and revisions published since then:
Clause 2 limits the scope of the accession to HF employees who are members of SITRA or who join it during the term of the agreement. The text specifies that the accession respects the principle of union membership, meaning it gives direct coverage only to workers who are members of the union, and not to all employees of the company. The document does not indicate how many workers are covered.
According to Clause 3, the accession refers to the agreement in its entirety and does not introduce any modification, addition or change to the clauses or working conditions of the company agreement in force. In other words, SITRA enters the agreement as it currently stands, without negotiating new conditions.
In future revisions of the agreement, Clause 4 provides that SITRA's participation follows the general collective bargaining rules set out in law, depending on the representativeness the union has at each point in time. The document does not specify what that representativeness currently is.
The accession takes effect upon its publication in JORAM, under Clause 5. Before that, HF must submit the agreement for filing with the competent labour authority. Filing is the formal registration of the instrument, required by the Labour Code for collective agreements to be valid. The document does not indicate the date on which the filing was made.
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