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.
The Portuguese government walked into the 19 June 2026 plenary debate on the Trabalho XXI (Labour XXI) reform of the Código do Trabalho (Labour Code) treating Saturday's floor vote as already won. Hugo Soares, leader of the parliamentary bench of...
Nestlé Portugal will eliminate 88 jobs over the next 18 months as the Swiss-headquartered food group folds the Portuguese operation into a worldwide restructuring that targets 16,000 redundancies by end-2027, the company confirmed in a written...
PM Luís Montenegro returned to Parliament on Wednesday afternoon for the quarterly debate ahead of Thursday's Labour Code revision discussion and Friday's vote — with Chega leader André Ventura still telling reporters no agreement has been reached after two meetings in a single week.
The leader of the Partido Socialista, José Luís Carneiro, met Prime Minister Luís Montenegro at the Palácio de São Bento on Thursday 14 May at the precise moment the Conselho de Ministros was completing its formal approval of the Trabalho XXI...
Cabinet sent the Trabalho XXI labour-reform proposal to parliament on Thursday with 50+ amendments to the August draft, 12 sourced from UGT. Fixed-term cap restored to three years, hour bank reinstated at 50 hours a week, father's birth leave doubles to 14 days, parental subsidy splits at 90/100%.
The Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses delivered the formal pré-aviso for its 12.ª greve geral to the Ministério do Trabalho on Monday 11 May 2026, with Wednesday 3 June 2026 set as the date of the strike. The notice, signed by...
