Cabrita, Jorge
Working time developments – 2011
15 augusztus 2012
In 2011, average collective agreed weekly working time in the European Union stood at 38.1 hours. The working week was on average 30 minutes shorter in the pre-2004 EU15 countries and over 1 hour and 30 minutes longer in the new Member Stat...
Fifth European Working Conditions Survey - Overview report
05 június 2012
Work plays a pivotal role in people’s lives, in the functioning of companies and in society at large. Improving the quality of work and working conditions has long been at the forefront of EU policy, most recently in the Europe 2020 Strat...
Industrial relations and working conditions developments in Europe 2010
04 december 2011
With a particular focus on the crisis and responses to it, this annual review highlights developments in working conditions and industrial relations in the EU Member States and Norway in 2010, both at national and EU level. At national level, the report examines key issues covered by collective bargaining (pay and working time) and looks at developments in social partner activity and industrial action. It also looks at company restructuring, the impact of the crisis and approaches to pension reform in light of demographic change. At European level, it reviews the year’s main events and trends in employment legislation and policy (in areas like paternity/maternity leave and working time), as well as in the European social dialogue at crosssectoral, sectoral and company levels. The final chapter focuses on training initiatives provided or supported by enterprises for their employees during the recession.
Pay developments – 2010
16 október 2011
EIRO’s annual analysis of pay trends for 2010 finds that average collectively agreed nominal wage increases were lower than in 2009 in almost all 13 countries with available data, with Malta being the exception. The highest reductions in ...
Working time developments – 2010
27 július 2011
In 2010, average collectively agreed weekly working time in the European Union stood at 38 hours. The figure was 0.4 hours lower in the pre-2004 EU15 and 1.7 hours higher in the new Member States. Agreed normal annual working time aver...
Lack of gender bias in job evaluation in hotels and restaurants
27 április 2009
A recent project, entitled ‘Revalue work to promote gender equality’
(Revalorizar o Trabalho para Promover a Igualdade [1]), was funded by the
EQUAL Community Initiative [2] and coordinated by the General Confederation
of the Portuguese Workers (Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses
– Intersindical, CGTP-IN [3]). The project developed a job evaluation
method that is free from gender bias in Portugal’s hotels and restaurants
sector, although more specifically in restaurants and beverage
establishments.
[1] http://www.cgtp.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=376&Itemid=205
[2] http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/equal/index_en.cfm
[3] http://www.cgtp.pt
Assessing the nature and extent of undeclared work
01 április 2009
In 2003, the Economic and Social Studies Society (Sociedade de Estudos
Económicos e Sociais, S2E2 [1]) carried out a study on behalf of the
Directorate General of Studies, Statistics and Planning – currently the
Office for Strategy and Planning (Gabinete de Estratégia e Planeamento, GEP
[2]) – on undeclared work [3] in Portugal. This study identifies different
methodologies to evaluate the dimension of undeclared work in order to find
the most adequate and effective way to quantify the Portuguese case. The
study also looks at the approach to undeclared work in the context of the
European Employment Strategy [4]’s National Action Plans [5] in different
countries. Finally, the quantification of the problem is analysed in the
construction sector using official statistics and the opinions of key
observers.
[1] http://www.s2e2.pt/
[2] http://www.dgeep.mtss.gov.pt/
[3] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/observatories/eurwork/industrial-relations-dictionary/undeclared-work
[4] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/observatories/eurwork/industrial-relations-dictionary/european-employment-strategy
[5] http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/employment_strategy/national_en.htm
Companies assessing gender equality for themselves
03 február 2009
An assessment made in the first phase of a project entitled ‘Social
dialogue and equality in companies’ (Diálogo Social e Igualdade nas
Empresas [1]) revealed that most companies in Portugal are not acquainted
with the principle of gender equality [2] or how to promote it, nor with the
competitive advantages that can arise from good practices in this domain. At
the same time, the evaluation underlined the lack of mechanisms or tools
supporting companies in this regard.
[1] http://www.cite.gov.pt/dialogosocial/index.html
[2] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/observatories/eurwork/industrial-relations-dictionary/gender-equality
National health and safety strategy aims to reduce number of workplace accidents
26 január 2009
According to most recent statistics of the Ministry of Labour and Social
Solidarity (Ministério do Trabalho e da Solidariedade Social, MTSS [1]), the
number of reported occupational accidents continues to decline (PT0704019I
[2]). The number of working days lost due to workplace accidents decreased
from 171,661 days in 2003 to 166,642 days in 2005, but the cumulative number
of immediate days lost due to workplace accidents increased from 6.3 million
to 6.8 million working days in the same period. This is reflected in the
increase of the average days lost per occupational accident from 36.7 days to
40.9 days a year in the same period.
[1] http://www.mtss.gov.pt/
[2] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/observatories/eurwork/articles/undefined/number-of-occupational-accidents-on-the-decline
Disparities in job security and satisfaction among Portuguese workers
26 november 2008
Attitudes to work amongPortuguese workers vary greatly. In general, male
workers, workers with a university degree and full-time workers seem to feel
more secure in their jobs, to think that they have good opportunities for
promotion and to be more satisfied about their jobs than female workers,
workers with lower education and part-time workers. The former groups are
also more likely to consider their jobs as interesting and useful to
society.