Finally got a permanent contract!!!

After working for 5 years for the same company with a project contract (it means you're contracted for a project only. When it's finished you're fired. Basically, it means they contract you untill they no longer want you, at which time they decide the project is finished and they have to pay you nothing to let you go), today they called me to ask me to go in and sign the new (permanent) contract. This new contract means I'm hired for the company indefinitely. If they want to fire me they have to pay me an ammount proportional to the time I've worked for the company (the salary equivalent to 45 days per each year I've worked for them).

There was a law by which after 3 years working under this type of contract, you were immediately considered as permanently contracted. However, a loophole also allowed them to pay you an amount (which, of course was taken off the bonus part of my salary) and pay off this law (they didn't change the type of contract).

This way, they kept workers in a precarious situation by which they could fire anyone anytime they pleased to do wo without having to pay a penny. They only had to say "well, sorry, but the project is finished", no matter what you were working on at the time.

Thanks to a new law (brought on by our 3-year-old left-winged government), the loophole has been eliminated and this type of contract MUST be transformed into permanent after a year and a half in the company. Companies are now forced to contract us decently and assure us at least a compensation ammount if they want to get rid of us (which they can still do whenever they please... but paying up!).

... and they still ask me why I want a left-winged government. I have no further questions, your honor.