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Draft Law No 51 /XI/1.

Inclusion in the IEFP and MTSS databases, in the bulletins or thematic publications on unemployment, the marital status of the unemployed,

or equiped situation.

Portugal runs through a serious economic and social crisis, in which many companies are

obliged to let go of laboring, or to have to reduce their jobs by placing

citizens in unemployment.

The recent data of the National Statistical Institute, referring to the second quarter of

2009 demonstrate a marked rise in the unemployment rate at the national level, which if

situates in 9.1%, which in number of people means 507.7 thousand citizens. Currently, from

agreement with data from September of the Instituo of Employment and Vocational Training,

they find themselves unemployed 510356 people, which means an increase in

practically 30% in relation to September 2008. In many of these cases it is not only

a member of the household who is found in unemployment. Unfortunately they are already

many cases in which husband and wife find themselves both in unemployment.

With the current juncture it is not expected that the current crisis will have a shutdown in the short term.

In this sense, it will be urgent to take social protection measures to assist citizens

finding themselves in the worrying situation of unemployment, as the measures up to

here taken by the Government have revealed themselves unable to contain the phenomenon of the loss of

jobs.

It is urgent, in order to be able to take measures that actually go to the meeting of the reality of

who find themselves under the situation of unemployed know the real numbers of how many are

the households in which more than one member is found unemployed.

This situation is especially drastic in some sectors of activity and in some areas

geographical.

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Even if by responding to the questionnaire that it is done by the job technicians at the Centre

of Employment and Vocational Training, upon enrolment as unemployed, the

citizens to inform about their marital status; even though these data are essential to

the allocation of the Social Unemployment Allowance, the Government continues to be incapable of

answer a simple question: what is the number of couples in which both elements of the

family household find themselves unemployed? What, on the edge, in many cases,

means that in many Portuguese households there is not at this time a single post of

work.

In Portugal this reality represents today about 21%, of the total number of

unemployed, the largest since at least 1998, according to news recently

linked in the media.

In the face of the exposed, and under the constitutional standards, the CDS-PP presents the following

draft law:

Article 1.

Subject

This Law introduces the obligation to appear in the data bases of the Institute of Employment

and Vocational Training and the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity the civil status

of the unemployed person, or equiped situation and the working condition of the spouse.

Article 2.

Scope of application

1-A The obligation of constant introduction in the preceding paragraph covers all organisms

of the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity and the Institute of Employment and Training

Professional who exercise roles within the area of unemployment.

2-Whenever a statistic is published, a newsletter, or too much

publication, on the sectoral analysis of unemployment in Portugal, will have to have the information

on the number of couples in which both spouses, or equiped situation, if

they find in the unemployment situation.

Palace of Saint Benedict, November 12, 2009

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The Deputies