Labour

Text: Chris Graeme Photo: Fernando Bento (ICPT) Low productivity is one of the main stumbling blocks to economic growth in Portugal according to Portugal’s Minister of Finances, Joaquim Miranda [...]

The Autoeuropa car plant in Palmela, near Setúbal has decided to apply a layoff regime for 3,742 of its 4,900 staff for a period of 13 days this month. With eight days of layoffs already made in [...]

From 100 companies which piloted a four-day working week test, only 21 saw the six month test period through to the end. However, 11 companies decided to extend the pilot test within the same [...]

Portugal has overtaken Spain and Italy to become the country in the European Union with the 2nd most precarious labour contacts. According to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, in 2022 [...]

The Business Roundtable Portugal Association has called on companies to stem the tide of talent flight from the country as more and more young professionals seek better-paid jobs and career [...]

According to the news source Expresso, Portugal has the highest emigration rate in Europe with 2.3 million Portuguese of working age living overseas. Citing data from the Emigration Observatory [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]