A wave of collective-bargaining updates lands a 6.2% nominal pay rise for around 111,000 private-sector administrative workers from March 2026 with retroactive payment, plus a €0.15 daily uplift in the meal subsidy to €6.15 — a credible signal for 2027 negotiations.
Farminveste's 2025 net profit hit €58.7M, nearly quintupling 2024's €11.2M, on the May-2025 sale of 51% of Alliance Healthcare (Alloga Logifarma). Volume of business €908.6M (+7.6%); EBITDA €51.6M (+10%); continuing ops €26M; discontinued ops €73.8M from the divestment.
Bison Bank's António Henriques launched on Tuesday Portugal's first bank-issued stablecoin — pegged to the euro and dollar, restricted to a closed ecosystem of regulated banks, and aligned with the MiCA framework transposed into Portuguese law as Lei 69/2025 of 22 December.
Minister Miguel Pinto Luz confirmed Transtejo Soflusa will open a Seixal–Barreiro fluvial connection in June 2026 — weekends first, weekdays to follow. The new line plugs into a 10-vessel electric fleet that has carried 2 million passengers and saved 1.74 million litres of diesel a year.
MAI confirmed on Tuesday it has suspended 10 GNR militares and 1 PSP agent — all from Beja — implicated in Operação Safra Justa, the November 2025 PJ-led human-trafficking case targeting a Cabeça Gorda network that controlled 500 foreign agricultural workers in the Alentejo since 2023.
