Employment

Text: Chris Graeme; Image: Fernando Bento (ICPT) Portugal’s Minister for Parliamentary Affairs warned that extremists are beginning to gain ground in the country’s political life on Tuesday. [...]

The hangover from Brexit and a flagging UK economy, coupled with a stricter immigration policy, has resulted in Portuguese émigrés abandoning the country in favour of Switzerland and other EU [...]

A chronic lack of human resources – one of the greatest challenges facing Portuguese employers, particularly in the hospitality sector – was flagged up by Portugal’s minister of Work [...]

Crioestaminal, Onya Health and Evolve are to join 39 companies and 1,000 staff taking part in a pilot to test the feasibility of operating a four-day work week in Portugal. The pilot, which [...]

The Portuguese government has created a new visa to make it easy to attract talent and much-needed staff to Portugal. The move, which was approved on Thursday at a meeting of the Council of [...]

Some of the proposed additional last-minute changes to Portugal’s labour law outlined in the State Budget for 2022 will be a serious stumbling block to economic development in Portugal. This is [...]

Madeira’s island of Porto Santo has set up a hub for digital nomads which will be up and running by October. The hub is a project from Startup Madeira following on from the huge success of [...]

The four Portuguese unicorns Farfetch, OutSystems, Talkdesk and Feedzai have over 800 job vacancies to fill. Although some have recruitment and selection processes that are more ambitious than [...]

The Portuguese government estimates that the unemployment rate for this year will reach 7.3%, above the 6.3% which was recorded at the end of 2020. Forecast in the Stability Programme which was [...]

Over 1,400 staff at telecoms giant Altice Portugal have signed up for its voluntary redundancy program launched at the start of the months. On 3 March, the company led by Alexandre Fonseca, [...]