Tribunal arbitral sets 3 June general strike minimum services: CP runs at 25% of normal frequency, Carris keeps hospital-school Lisbon bus routes at 100% in peak hours, TAP operates 34 flights.
PS secretary-general José Luís Carneiro closed his week of bilateral meetings with the social partners by sitting with the CGTP on Friday 22 May. The PS files an alternative competitiveness-and-wages package in the week of 26 May ahead of the 3 June general strike.
PS leader José Luís Carneiro branded the Labour Code revision a 'contrarreforma' on Thursday 21 May and confirmed PS will vote against on the general phase. An alternative competitiveness-and-wages package follows next week after Carneiro wraps Concertação Social with CGTP on Friday 22 May.
Cabinet sent the Trabalho XXI labour-reform proposal to parliament on Thursday with 50+ amendments to the August draft, 12 sourced from UGT. Fixed-term cap restored to three years, hour bank reinstated at 50 hours a week, father's birth leave doubles to 14 days, parental subsidy splits at 90/100%.
The Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses delivered the formal pré-aviso for its 12.ª greve geral to the Ministério do Trabalho on Monday 11 May 2026, with Wednesday 3 June 2026 set as the date of the strike. The notice, signed by...
The Conselho de Ministros approved on Thursday 14 May 2026 — at the 09:30 weekly meeting at the official residence in Lisbon — the proposta de lei that converts the government's nine-month Trabalho XXI exercise into the bill that now goes to...
The labour-reform bill walks into the Assembleia this week with the banco de horas grupal repealed, fixed-term grounds widened, the SME reintegration bar lifted, post-dismissal outsourcing halved to six months, and the caducidade path widened. CGTP general strike locked for 3 June.
