Labour Law

State of Emergency: Mandatory Adoption of Remote Work

Decree no. 6/2021 of 3 April, which regulates the state of emergency decreed by the President of the Republic that runs from 1 April 2021...

07 April, 2021

Pandemic Labour Supports

Decree-Law no. 23-A/2021, of 24 March, extends the scope of the extraordinary support to the reduction of the economic activity of a worker, the "simplified...

29 March, 2021

Pandemic Labour Measures

Decree-Law No. 22-A/2021, of 17 March, extends deadlines and establishes exceptional and temporary measures within the scope of the COVID-19 disease pandemic. In the labour area,...

19 March, 2021

Exceptional Suspending of Deadlines Collective Labor Agreements

Law No. 11/2021, March 9, was published, suspending deadlines associated with the over validity and expiry of collective labor agreements. For 24 months, counted from the...

10 March, 2021

Age of Access to Old-Age Pension

Ordinance No. 53/2021, of 10 March, establishes the normal age for accessing the old-age pension under the general social security system in 2022. The normal age...

10 March, 2021

Clarifications in the context of measures to support the maintenance of employment contracts

Decree-Law No. 8-B/2021 of 22 January was published, and it clarified the scope of access to support established in Decree-Law No. 46-A/2020 of 30 July. Therefore,...

25 January, 2021

Suspension of Teaching and Non-Teaching Activities in Person

Decree-Law No. 8-B/2021 of 22 January was published, establishing a set of support measures for the suspension of teaching and non-teaching activities in person. The Government...

25 January, 2021

Employment Support Measures

Currently there are two regimes in force, the extraordinary support for the maintenance of employment contracts in business crisis situations, called simplified lay-off, established in...

22 January, 2021

Reinforcement of the Telework Obligation and Communication to the ACT

Decree-Law No. 3-B of 19 January was published, amending the regulations on the state of emergency, decreed by the President of the Republic. To reinforce the...

20 January, 2021