The Portuguese State takes 28% of employees’s pay on average after taxes and social security contributions. In other words the average worker takes home 72% of gross salary according to the [...]

A raft of new labour legislation which aims to improve the work-life balance of employers in Portugal now makes it illegal for bosses to contact their staff — without prior permission — outside [...]

A Lisbon court has blocked an attempt by low-cost airline Ryanair to make six staff redundant from their jobs at the airline’s Lisbon base. The National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel [...]

Six of the main banks in the Portuguese market lost 1,016 staff between September 2019 and September 2020. The number of bank branches has also been slashed and today there are 187 fewer in the [...]

Portugal’s falling working age population is proving a major stumbling block to a rapid economic recovery say experts. According to Jornal Económico (full access by subscription), the [...]

According to a study by Polar Insight – ‘FLEX – Understanding flexible working in Portugal’ Portugal is the country that most lags behind other EU member-states when it comes to [...]

Portugal lags way behind countries like the United Kingdom when it comes to flexible working practices in companies. And women (75.5%) make up the lion’s share of employees who earn less than [...]