Labor and Employment Law

  • Portugal: Promoting the rights of people with endometriosis or adenomyosis and implications for the absence regime

    It was published in the official gazette Law no. 32/2025, of 27 March, which aimed to promote the rights of people with endometriosis or adenomyosis by strengthening their access to health care and creating a system of justified absences from work and classes by amending the Labour Code.

  • Portugal: Indexing reference for social benefits updated to 522.50 euros in 2025

    This index is the reference for several social security benefits.

  • Portugal: Temporary residence permits based on “expression of interest” are no longer admitted

    From 4 June 2024, onwards, foreign citizens will no longer be able to apply for a temporary residence permit on the basis of an expression of interest. They will also no longer be able to apply for temporary residence permits for independent professional activity and for entrepreneurial immigrants.

  • Portugal: Indexing reference for social aid updated to 509,26 euro in 2024

    This index is the reference for several social security aids.

  • Portugal: Work accident pensions increase by 6% for 2024

    The value of pensions for accidents at work is updated annually, in line with the evolution of Portuguese GDP and the CPI in Portugal.

  • Portugal: Retirement age increases to 66 years and 7 months in 2025

    Considering the increase of life expectancy recorded in 2022 and 2023, the standard age to access retirement pension in the Portuguese general social security system in 2025 will increase to 66 years and 7 months.

  • Whistleblowing channels at companies in Spain: the key aspects of the new law protecting whistleblowers from all angles

    The law protecting whistleblowers in Spain requires companies with 50 or more workers to have an internal whistleblowing system in place and sets out fines of up to €1,000,000. 

  • Portugal: Amendments to the Sustainable Employment Commitment measure

    Ordinance no. 109/2023, of April 19 was published in the Official Gazette, introducing amendments to the Sustainable Employment Commitment measure (“Compromisso Emprego Sustentável”).

  • Portugal: Meal allowance amount increases to € 6.00

    Ordinance no.107-A/2023, of April 18th was published in the Official Gazette (Diário da República), increasing, from € 5.20 to € 6.00, the meal allowance amount for civil servants.

  • The European Parliament approves the proposal for a directive on the pay gap

    The European Parliament approves the proposal for a directive to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay between men and women with the aim to close the pay gap.