Wednesday 7 May closes social concertation on Portugal's pacote laboral. Six points still in dispute, UGT refusing to yield, CGTP locked into 3 June general strike, and a Parliament path through Chega's 60 seats. End-of-day analysis on what is at stake.
Pordata's 1 May data drop puts Portugal fourth in the EU on youth precarious work — roughly 60% of workers under 24 and 40% of workers under 30 are on temporary contracts. CoLABOR sociologist Frederico Cantante says administrative records make the picture even worse.
CGTP secretary-general Tiago Oliveira used the 1.º de Maio rally between Martim Moniz and Alameda D. Afonso Henriques to call a national general strike for Wednesday 3 June against the government's pacote laboral. UGT will not commit to action until after the 7 May Concertação Social meeting.
Two data points released on Thursday paint a complicated picture of Portugal's labor market: the country's five largest banks spent nearly one billion euros on early retirement packages over the past two years, while the number of workers affected...
Portugal closed 2025 with a troubling economic warning sign: productivity fell even as wages continued to climb, creating a cost squeeze that threatens the competitiveness of businesses and the sustainability of recent employment gains. According to...
Portugal's largest trade union confederation, the CGTP-IN, has called a "grande manifestação nacional" for April 17, escalating tensions over the government's labor reform agenda and setting the stage for what could be one of the largest worker...
