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UGT Banking Federation Escalates the Reformas dos Bancários Standoff to Minister Rosário Palma Ramalho — Lenders Accused of Off-loading Pension Burden onto Segurança Social as SNQTB Files a Parallel Parliamentary Petition

UGT Banking Federation Escalates the Reformas dos Bancários Standoff to Minister Rosário Palma Ramalho — Lenders Accused of Off-loading Pension Burden onto Segurança Social as SNQTB Files a Parallel Parliamentary Petition

UGT-bank federation asks Min. Trabalho Rosário Palma Ramalho and the Director-General of Segurança Social to intervene on bankers' pension calculations; SNQTB filed a parallel petition heading for Assembleia plenary.

The Portugal Brief 27 May 2026

Açores Government Opens the SATA Internacional / Azores Airlines Sale With a 75% Minimum-Stake Floor — Caderno de Encargos Locks In 30-Month No-Layoff Cover, São Miguel-Terceira-Lisboa-Porto Routing and a Three-Year AOC

Açores Government Opens the SATA Internacional / Azores Airlines Sale With a 75% Minimum-Stake Floor — Caderno de Encargos Locks In 30-Month No-Layoff Cover, São Miguel-Terceira-Lisboa-Porto Routing and a Three-Year AOC

The Açores regional government's caderno de encargos for the SATA Internacional / Azores Airlines reprivatisation opens the private-negotiation phase with a 75% minimum-stake floor, a 30-month bar on collective dismissals, a three-year AOC and an HQ-in-Açores requirement.

The Portugal Brief 22 May 2026

PS Brands the Labour Code Overhaul a 'Contrarreforma' and Drafts an Alternative Competitiveness-and-Wages Package for Late May — Carneiro Wraps Concertação Social With CGTP on Friday 22 May

PS Brands the Labour Code Overhaul a 'Contrarreforma' and Drafts an Alternative Competitiveness-and-Wages Package for Late May — Carneiro Wraps Concertação Social With CGTP on Friday 22 May

PS leader José Luís Carneiro branded the Labour Code revision a 'contrarreforma' on Thursday 21 May and confirmed PS will vote against on the general phase. An alternative competitiveness-and-wages package follows next week after Carneiro wraps Concertação Social with CGTP on Friday 22 May.

The Portugal Brief 21 May 2026

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

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