{"id":41256,"date":"2023-04-04T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/portugal-new-labor-law-comes-into-force-on-may-1\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:29:10","slug":"portugal-new-labor-law-comes-into-force-on-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/knowledge\/companies\/portugal-new-labor-law-comes-into-force-on-may-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal: New Labor Law comes into force on May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Within the scope of the Decent Work Agenda and after months of public debate, in general, the new Labor Code comes into force on 1 May<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Portugal, public and private entities are governed by the General Labor Law which, after months of public debate, was published. Law n. \u00ba 13\/2023 of April 3, amends the Labor Code and related legislation, within the framework of the decent work agenda. What are the main changes?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For companies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collective dismissal compensation processes will be more expensive.<\/li>\n<li>Additional work from 100 hours a year doubles its value.<\/li>\n<li>Increase in compensation for expiry of a fixed-term employment contract<\/li>\n<li>After terminating contracts, you will not be able to use outsourcing services for a period of 12 months to meet the needs of entities, due to redundancies<\/li>\n<li>Work on platforms is now regulated<\/li>\n<li>Temporary employment contracts with a maximum limit of 4 renewals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For workers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tax exemption with telework expenses<\/li>\n<li>Increased father&#8217;s parental leave period to 28 days<\/li>\n<li>Extending the right to telework to parents with children with chronic illness, disability, or oncology<\/li>\n<li>In cases where the contract is terminated, workers cannot waive credits such as allowances, overtime, or training hours.<\/li>\n<li>Death leave extended to 20 days<\/li>\n<li>Professional internships are mandatorily remunerated with a minimum value of 80% of the National Minimum Wage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This legislation comes into force on May 1, except for some measures related to the expiry of collective agreements, which are in force from the day following their publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the scope of the Decent Work Agenda and after months of public debate, in general, the new Labor Code comes into force on 1 May &nbsp; In Portugal, public and private entities are governed by the General Labor Law which, after months of public debate, was published. Law n. \u00ba 13\/2023 of April 3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarescapela.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}