INE's provisional national accounts show export volumes flat and tourism-linked services shrinking, while household investment rose 16.2 percent. The saving rate fell to 12.3 percent last year and to 12.1 percent in the year to June 2026.
A study of 750 journalists by the Labpats workplace-health laboratory finds stagnant pay, long shifts and weak management behind the exhaustion. Two thirds would still choose the profession again.
The regional floor goes from 980 euros to 1,050 euros next year, and the union says hundreds of staff will land on it whatever their seniority. It wants 70 euros added up to level 23 of the Madeira table.
The Residência Farmacêutica started in 2023 and reaches its first finish line next year, in clinical analyses, hospital pharmacy and human genetics. More than 500 pharmacists are behind them in the programme.
The September Comparar para Crescer snapshot from the Business Roundtable Portugal puts hourly output at 66.9 percent of the EU average in 2025, below the 67.6 percent of 2000, while the employment rate hit a record 79.6 percent.
The agency was barred from competing for two years after leaving the DS Seguros network and paid nothing for the wait. Enforcing the penalty, the appeal court held, was an abuse of right. ECO reports at least 59 similar actions against former agents.
Requests for a CITE opinion on parental dismissals fall on women ten times more often than on men. The pay transparency directive was due in force on 7 June and Portugal's bill has not reached the Council of Ministers.
