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Évora Prosecutors Send Two Men and a Spanish Company to Trial Over Workers Lured to Elvas, and Ask the Court for 324,000 Euros of the Proceeds

The DIAP Regional de Évora says workers from Algeria and Morocco were brought into Portugal on job offers the defendants never intended to honour, between October 2021 and January 2022. Two men and a Spain-based company are charged.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

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Portugal Puts a Price on Opening Its Museums on a Public Holiday: 60 Euros a Day, Backdated to April

A two-page decree adds one article to the law that created Museus e Monumentos de Portugal. Front-of-house staff who work a feriado now get a fixed 60 euros on top of the pay they were already owed, indexed annually, with effect from 1 April 2026.

The Portugal Brief 06 Sep 2026

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A Class Action Over Uber's Pay Algorithm Lands in Amsterdam, and Portuguese Drivers Are Eligible to Join It Even Though the Wire Reports Leave Portugal Off the List

Stichting WIE International filed on Wednesday, arguing the dynamic pay system breaches article 22 of the GDPR. Its research puts Uber's average commission at about 29 percent. Portugal's parliament capped the platform share at 25 percent nine days ago.

The Portugal Brief 04 Sep 2026

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A 17-Page Complaint of Bullying and Irregular Hiring at Portugal's Parliament Was Archived Without Either Named Official Being Interviewed

The anonymous file described two years of shouting and persecution by the Secretary-General's adjunct, and a rise from 11 to 61 outside appointments to management posts. The legal auditor who proposed closing it had already asked to leave his post.

The Portugal Brief 03 Sep 2026

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558 Teachers Retire This Month and 2,650 Timetables Sit Empty, and the Minister's Bridge Across the Gap Is 20 Million Euros of Overtime

FENPROF counts 2,650 unfilled school-contract timetables, more than 50,000 hours, with 378 whole timetables empty in the first cycle. Fernando Alexandre says no teacher is missing from the classroom because the state paid 20 million euros in overtime to June.

The Portugal Brief 01 Sep 2026

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Portugal Logged 375 Collective Redundancy Procedures by July, the Most Since the Pandemic, and Fewer People Actually Lost Their Jobs

DGERT's July report puts notified procedures up about 13 percent to 375, the highest January to July count since 2020. Workers actually dismissed fell 11.4 percent to 4,055. Micro and small firms filed 279 of the 375; Lisbon and the Tagus Valley 221.

The Portugal Brief 01 Sep 2026

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Three Unions Set 2 October as the Strike Date for Portugal's 350,000 General-Career Public Workers

The national public services federation, STAL and the Lisbon municipal workers' union have called a joint stoppage for Friday 2 October, plus an 11am demonstration in Lisbon, demanding pay talks open now rather than in 2027.

The Portugal Brief 01 Sep 2026

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