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Harassment at work has gained growing attention in Portugal and a new guide for employers aims to raise awareness of the issue among workers. In March 2013, the Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment (Comissão para a Igualdade n...

Cabin crew from Portugal’s state-owned airline TAP have voted overwhelmingly to break away from their umbrella trade union confederation, the UGT, after a row over the airline’s privatisation.

Collective bargaining coverage continues to decline dramatically in Portugal, due to the continuing fall in the number of bargaining extensions.

Rising numbers of workers are on the minimum wage in Portugal. Estimates at the end of 2014 put the share at around 13% of the working population.

A decision to cut bank workers’ wages has been overturned by a Portuguese court.

There has been a slight fall in the number of fatal workplace accidents in Portugal.

Public sector workers went on strike throughout Portugal in March to demand the return of the 35-hour week.

Official unemployment figures as calculated by Statistics Portugal are considerably lower than those calculated by the Employment and Vocational Training Institute as a result of different approaches to who is counted as unemployed.

The economic and financial crisis has had a major impact on job security and working conditions across all sectors in Portugal, including scientific research. A national study finds that research staff are experiencing precarious employment having difficulties in finding a stable job in Portugal, leading many to choose emigration.

Conventional working hours in Portugal have become less common in the last few decades and shift work and night work is increasingly prevalent. A recently published study aims to look at how organisations can improve the effects of shift work on their workers, particularly in the way such work is organised.