Decent Work Agenda

On 10 February 2023, a legislative package of employment legislation known as the Decent Work Agenda was approved. The legislation now approved requires promulgation by the President of the Republic and subsequent publication in the official gazette, Diário da República, and the date of entry into force of these legislative changes is not yet known.

For ease of reading and analysis, we have prepared a comparative table of the main changes to the current legislation.

1. Fixed-term contracts of employment