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Chega Sinks the Government's Trabalho XXI Labour Reform on Friday's Generalidade Vote — PSD, CDS-PP and IL Stand Alone as PS, Bloco de Esquerda, PCP, Livre, PAN and JPP Carry the No, Ventura Cites Despedimentos and Reforma-Antecipada Sticking Points

Chega Sinks the Government's Trabalho XXI Labour Reform on Friday's Generalidade Vote — PSD, CDS-PP and IL Stand Alone as PS, Bloco de Esquerda, PCP, Livre, PAN and JPP Carry the No, Ventura Cites Despedimentos and Reforma-Antecipada Sticking Points

Chega joined the entire left bench to reject the Trabalho XXI labour reform in Friday's generalidade vote, defeating Prime Minister Luís Montenegro's flagship Código do Trabalho rewrite. Only PSD, CDS-PP and IL voted in favour.
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CGTP Buses Algarve Workers Into Lisbon for the 13:30 São Bento Rally Against Trabalho XXI — 100+ Código do Trabalho Articles Ease Dismissals, Widen Subcontracting and Harden the Strike Minimum-Service Frame Ahead of Friday's Vote

CGTP Buses Algarve Workers Into Lisbon for the 13:30 São Bento Rally Against Trabalho XXI — 100+ Código do Trabalho Articles Ease Dismissals, Widen Subcontracting and Harden the Strike Minimum-Service Frame Ahead of Friday's Vote

Algarve, Alentejo and Norte locals are busing into Lisbon for CGTP's 13:30 rally outside the Assembleia da República, the last public push before Friday's parliamentary vote on Trabalho XXI — a 100-plus-article rewrite of the Código do Trabalho.
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FENPROF Takes Pre-School Educators and 1st-Cycle Teachers Out for a Single-Teacher Regime Strike Day — Public Rally at MECI Ministry From 10:00

FENPROF Takes Pre-School Educators and 1st-Cycle Teachers Out for a Single-Teacher Regime Strike Day — Public Rally at MECI Ministry From 10:00

The Federação Nacional dos Professores (FENPROF, National Federation of Teachers) opened a national strike of pre-school educators (educadores de infância) and primary 1st-cycle teachers (professores do 1.º ciclo) on Monday 15 June 2026, pairing the walkout with a 10:00 public rally — 'Tribuna Pública pela Equidade na Monodocência&
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Portugal Misses the 7 June Transposition Deadline on the EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970 — Ministério do Trabalho's 30 March Draft Sits Open as the Job-Ad Pay-Band Rule and Reversed Burden of Proof Bind Anyway

Portugal Misses the 7 June Transposition Deadline on the EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970 — Ministério do Trabalho's 30 March Draft Sits Open as the Job-Ad Pay-Band Rule and Reversed Burden of Proof Bind Anyway

Portugal sat out the 7 June 2026 transposition deadline on European Union Directive 2023/970 (the Pay Transparency Directive / Diretiva da Transparência Salarial) without publishing a Decreto-Lei in the Diário da República. The Ministério do...
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