Four-day week. What if Friday were Saturday?
Launched at the end of 2022, the four-day week pilot project has entered its second phase. In the first phase, 99 companies from different sectors participated. Of these, 46 will move on to the next phase. Fewer working hours and new ways of rationalizing the working day are the challenges of the Four-Day Week pilot […]
Nestlé Portugal raised all employees by 1,000 euros
The annual due date has been revised to 2022 and is still with the March settlement. Nestlé Portugal has increased the salary of its employees by 1,000 euros per year in 2022, which will accumulate with the annual increase in March, the company announced. “We have increased the annual salary of all employees in Portugal […]
First strike by private sector nurses on March 16
Nurses working in the health units of the Portuguese Association of Private Hospitalization (APHP) will go on strike for the first time on March 16, the Portuguese Nurses Union (SEP) announced today. The SEP is demanding a 35-hour work week and the regulation of shifts, a monthly salary increase for shift workers, the payment of […]
Fenprof highlights adherence to “extraordinary” teachers’ strike with “illegal” minimum services
The general secretary of the National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof), said this Friday that the adherence to the teachers’ strike is “extraordinary” and that only minimum services are being fulfilled, which the union classifies as “forced labor” and “illegal”. “Considering what is happening, the teachers are at the door and those who go to work […]
Unemployment stabilizes in Europe, but rises in Portugal and exceeds EU average
The unemployment rate in January was 6.7% in the euro zone and 6.1% in the Union of 27, values that have remained stable for three consecutive months. In Portugal, the trend is the opposite, with a deterioration. The unemployment rate remained stable in January compared to the previous month in both the European Union and […]
Sonae Contact will hire 94 young talents and pay them above average.
Applications are now open for the program idealized by Belmiro de Azevedo in the 80’s, aimed at final year undergraduate and graduate students, which this year aims to give a record number of candidates the opportunity to join the Sonae Group. In 1986, the year Portugal joined the European Union, Sonae became a pioneer in […]
331 million, 800 million, or 1,300 million. After all, how much does it cost to unfreeze teachers’ service time?
Negotiations between the government and teachers’ unions continue without agreement, there are numbers for all tastes, but, in the end, how much would it cost the budget to fully recover careers? The negotiations between the Ministry of Education and teachers’ unions on the new model for recruitment and placement of teachers should end this Thursday. […]
More than 4,000 job offers from 75 companies to ‘grab’ in Guimarães
The “Job Days” initiative, promoted by the School of Engineering of UMinho, takes place on February 28th and March 1st, in Guimarães. The day before, on Tuesday, there is a debate on the evolution of work models, with personalities from entrepreneurship and training. At the opening of the program, at 1:30 am, there will be […]
Eight million in investment, 2,000 students and 230 jobs. Two international schools open in Portugal
At the start of the next school year, 2023-2024, there should be at least two new international schools in the country: The Lisboan International School and the Almada International School. Being the choice of more and more foreigners, Portugal is seeing the birth of new private international schools. At the start of the next academic […]
Microsoft Portugal opens its office to entrepreneurs and startups
Microsoft Portugal will bring together, this Thursday, February 23, more than 60 founders of startups and entrepreneurs at its offices in Parque das Nações, Lisbon. The initiative aims to promote the sharing of experiences among participants and employees of the technology company in Portugal. The event is part of the “Coworking Thursdays”. It is an […]