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Forty Immigrants Lodge AIMA Complaints Over Forged Residency Authorisations — Colombian Civil-Construction Workers Carry the Bulk of the 'Agenciador' Scheme

Forty Immigrants Lodge AIMA Complaints Over Forged Residency Authorisations — Colombian Civil-Construction Workers Carry the Bulk of the 'Agenciador' Scheme

A group of 40 foreign workers, the majority of them Colombian nationals recruited into Portugal's civil-construction sector, filed formal complaints with the Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (AIMA) over forged residency authorisations...

The Portugal Brief 21 May 2026

SPAC President Hélder Santinhos Frames Lufthansa as the Labour-Stability Risk in TAP's 49.9% Privatisation — Air France-KLM Remains the Preferred Buyer for the Pilots' Union

SPAC President Hélder Santinhos Frames Lufthansa as the Labour-Stability Risk in TAP's 49.9% Privatisation — Air France-KLM Remains the Preferred Buyer for the Pilots' Union

The pilots' union Sindicato dos Pilotos da Aviação Civil (SPAC) sharpened its position on the TAP privatisation on Wednesday, with president Hélder Santinhos telling Público that the bid from Lufthansa would create "um problema na estabilidade...

The Portugal Brief 21 May 2026

Cabin Crew and Airport Handling Unions Sign Onto the 3 June General Strike — More Than 500 Portugal-Departing Flights at Risk on the Day of the CGTP Walkout

Cabin Crew and Airport Handling Unions Sign Onto the 3 June General Strike — More Than 500 Portugal-Departing Flights at Risk on the Day of the CGTP Walkout

The Sindicato Nacional do Pessoal de Voo da Aviação Civil (SNPVAC) — the union that represents cabin crew on Portuguese-flag carriers — voted on Tuesday 19 May 2026 to join the CGTP general strike scheduled for Wednesday 3 June 2026 , putting more...

The Portugal Brief 20 May 2026

Government Sends a Labour Code Overhaul to the Assembleia on 19 May — Fixed-Term Contracts Stretch to Five Years and Work-Hour Bank Bonus Caps at 25%

Government Sends a Labour Code Overhaul to the Assembleia on 19 May — Fixed-Term Contracts Stretch to Five Years and Work-Hour Bank Bonus Caps at 25%

Minister of Labour Maria do Rosário Palma Ramalho dropped the executive's long-trailed proposta de lei to revise the Código do Trabalho at the secretariat of the Assembleia da República on Tuesday 19 May 2026, ECO confirmed after seeing the...

The Portugal Brief 20 May 2026

Government Reinstates Original Labour Reform Draft on Fixed-Term Contracts and Outsourcing After 14 May Council of Ministers Approval — PS Threatens Floor Vote, CIP Counts It 'Modest', UGT Labels It a 'Retrocesso'

Government Reinstates Original Labour Reform Draft on Fixed-Term Contracts and Outsourcing After 14 May Council of Ministers Approval — PS Threatens Floor Vote, CIP Counts It 'Modest', UGT Labels It a 'Retrocesso'

The Government's proposta de lei for the revision of the Código do Trabalho was approved by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday 14 May 2026 with key passages restored to the original Outubro 2025 working draft, after nine months of tripartite...

The Portugal Brief 18 May 2026

Fenprof Brings Thousands of Teachers Onto Lisbon's Streets on Saturday 16 May for 'Mais Respeito pela Escola Pública' March — Pay, Career-Length Backlog and Specialist Shortages Top the Demand List

Fenprof Brings Thousands of Teachers Onto Lisbon's Streets on Saturday 16 May for 'Mais Respeito pela Escola Pública' March — Pay, Career-Length Backlog and Specialist Shortages Top the Demand List

Fenprof brought thousands of teachers onto Lisbon's streets on Saturday for the 'Mais Respeito pela Escola Pública' march, demanding pay revision, the long-promised settlement of the missing six years, two months and 18 days of career time and a serious answer to specialist-teacher shortages.

The Portugal Brief 17 May 2026

Portugal's Q1 2026 Real-Wage Print Carves a Productivity Scissor Around Yesterday's LFS Reversal — €1,611 Average Pay Marks 5.0% Nominal as 38,700 Net Jobs Vanish, Setting Up the BdP June Bulletin

Portugal's Q1 2026 Real-Wage Print Carves a Productivity Scissor Around Yesterday's LFS Reversal — €1,611 Average Pay Marks 5.0% Nominal as 38,700 Net Jobs Vanish, Setting Up the BdP June Bulletin

Two prints from the same statistical office, one day apart, frame an awkward question for the Banco de Portugal. On Thursday 14 May the Q1 2026 Quarterly Labour Force Survey recorded 38,700 net job losses in three months and pushed unemployment to...

The Portugal Brief 15 May 2026

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