A Case Study on Research into an Instrument of Collective Regulation from Portugal: equal opportunities and collective bargaining in the European Union (Phase III).

Like the two earlier reports of the first and second phases of the research, this report seeks to equip the labour side and the employers with the knowledge and sensitivity that the promotion of equal opportunities through collective bargaining requires. The objective of this work is on the one hand to take a comprehensive view of the nature of the bargaining process in Portugal, anD on the other to monitor closely a bargaining process which despite all its faults was considered closest to the issue of equal opportunities in collective bargaining.