Guides
Claiming Unpaid Wages from the Wage Guarantee Fund in Portugal
If your employer goes insolvent, a state fund pays up to €2,760 a month of unpaid wages. Who qualifies, the one year deadline, and how to claim.
Employment
Employment
Two Consultancies Put Portuguese Pay Rises at 3.3 and 3.4 Percent for 2027, Which Is Roughly Where Inflation Sat in August
Korn Ferry and Marsh Portugal arrive at almost the same 2027 number from different samples, and the median does not clear 3 percent. Last year's growth was the minimum wage doing the work: operational roles up 6.5 percent, everyone else up 1.3.
European Union
A Non-EU Degree Takes Fourteen Months to Get Recognised in Europe, and Brussels Proposed on Tuesday to Cut That to Four
The Commission's Fair Labour Mobility package is five legislative proposals. The one that will be felt hardest in Portugal sets common standards for recognising a qualification earned outside the Union, where the current average wait is 14 months.
Business
Poland Fined Jerónimo Martins 525 Million Zloty for Running a Pact That Kept Lorry Drivers From Changing Employer
The Polish competition regulator says the owner of Biedronka organised an agreement among the hauliers at its distribution centres not to hire one another's drivers, and enforced it by barring drivers who moved. Twenty-nine carriers and eight individuals were fined alongside it.
Politics
Livre Opens Its Autumn Accusing the Government of Passing the Rejected Labour Package One Chapter at a Time
Parliament threw out Trabalho XXI on 19 June. At the party's autumn opening in Porto on Sunday, Isabel Mendes Lopes said the measures are returning separately, inside other people's bills, and named this week's parental leave committee stage as the first.
Economy
Portuguese Services Billed 2.1 Percent More in July and Sold 2.6 Percent Less, With Hotels and Restaurants Falling for a Fourth Month
INE's July services turnover release grew in euros and shrank in volume. Accommodation and catering posted its fourth consecutive year-on-year fall in the heart of the season, and the services employment index swung 2.8 points in a month to minus 1.3 percent.
Guides
Claiming for a Work Accident in Portugal
Hurt at work or on your commute in Portugal? Report it within 48 hours. What your employer's insurer pays, what counts, and the one year deadline to claim.