The union confederation's 15th congress opens in Figueira da Foz with the labour minister on the stage. Rosa Sousa is the social democrats' choice for president; Mário Mourão is expected to stay on.
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...
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.
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 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 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%.
