Fewer workers in Portugal are facing the threat of collective dismissal, though employers are still taking steps to restructure and organise their businesses, according to Filipe Azoia, founding partner at AAMM.
Employment-related issues concerning social media have finally been brought to Portuguese courts’ attention – three decisions of Appeal Courts on this topic were published during the year 2014, and it is expected that more decisions will follow.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued an important ruling, dated 13 May, 2015, regarding the collision between Spanish legislation on collective redundancies and the contents of Directive (EC) 98/59 on the approximation of
Employment lawyers say they are doing less collective dismissal-related work, but does this mean the economy is recovering or are clients simply more inclined to handle employment matters in-house?
Many Portuguese companies have been faced with incredible financial difficulties in recent years and have been cutting back staffing levels.
The Portuguese government has recently revised the programmes aimed at supporting traineeship initiatives and fostering the hiring of unemployed people.
A new legal framework applicable to employees’ selection criteria with regard to individual redundancy and maladjustment procedures came into force on 1 June, 2014. Law no. 27/2014 is a consequence of the Constitutional Court’s Ruling no. 602/2013 which
A flat rate for business fees relating to indefinite contracts has been established by Royal Legislative Decree 3/2014 of February 28, which aims to promote employment and indefinite hiring. The decree was published in the Official State
The labour market reform of February 2012 – in the context of an enormous unemployment rate of more than 25 percent – was a necessary attempt to modernize the Spanish labour market’s structure, both from the individual and
