Government program provides for performance pay supplement in the civil service
The Government Program delivered today in parliament foresees individual career plans for public administration workers and the creation of a performance pay supplement or variable bonuses based on merit. In the document, the executive led by Luís Montenegro defends “a medium-term human resources policy for each entity, as well as implementing individual career development plans […]
Court denies 27 couriers recognition of employment contract with Glovo
The Faro District Labor Court denied the existence of a contractual relationship between 27 couriers and the digital platform Glovo, rejecting the recognition of an employment contract, as requested by the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP). The decision of the Faro district court, dated April 5 and to which Lusa had access today, refuses to recognize […]
João Dias, president of the agency that coordinates all Lojas e Espaços de Cidadão, reveals to ECO that the State is experimenting with artificial intelligence to analyze complaints from the Portuguese.
That the Portuguese have many complaints about the service they receive from public services is nothing new. But the president of the Agency for Administrative Modernization (AMA) believes that artificial intelligence can help solve this problem. In an interview with ECO, João Dias explains that this technology can be useful not only by making employees […]
Pedro Nuno writes to Montenegro to negotiate civil service agreement
The secretary-general of the PS, Pedro Nuno Santos, wrote to the prime minister today offering to negotiate an agreement that would resolve the situation of certain professional groups in the public administration in 60 days. In a letter addressed today to Luís Montenegro, to which the Lusa news agency has had access, Pedro Nuno Santos […]
Independent Doctors’ Union expects government to increase salaries until 2026
The secretary-general of the Independent Doctors’ Union, Nuno Rodrigues, hopes that the new government will restore the 15% salary increase for doctors by 2026, completing the interim agreement reached with the previous executive. “Despite last year’s interim agreement [with the previous government], since 2015 doctors have still not reached purchasing power parity and therefore a […]
UGT challenges preliminary proposal by the Commission for the Sustainability of Social Security
The UGT announced today that it hopes the new government will not accept the preliminary proposal of the Commission for the Sustainability of Social Security, which, according to the newspaper Expresso, envisages changes to early retirement schemes. The Commission for the Sustainability of Social Security argues that the possibility of early retirement at the age […]
Employers’ confederations contest 7.9% pay rise for administrative staff
The decree defining wage increases of 7.89% for 104,250 administrative workers in various sectors not covered by collective bargaining was published today in the Diário da República, with the opposition of three employers’ confederations. The notice regarding the increases had already been published in the Labor and Employment Bulletin at the beginning of March, signed […]
Unemployment falls year-on-year to 6.7% in February
The unemployment rate was 6.7% in February, down 0.2 percentage points year-on-year, but 0.1 percentage points higher than in January, according to provisional data released today by the National Statistics Institute (INE). “The unemployment rate stood at 6.7%, 0.1 percentage points higher than in the previous month and three months earlier, but 0.2 percentage points […]
Nurses’ Union demands negotiations with new minister to solve problems
The Portuguese Nurses’ Union (SEP) today demanded that the new Minister of Health begin negotiations with a view to resolving the problems of the class, such as increasing salaries and counting all time served. In a statement, the SEP said that in the next few days it will deliver a list of demands to the […]
Hundreds of young people demand better salaries in Lisbon and even the rain doesn’t stop the protest
More than three hundred young people took to the streets in Lisbon today, in heavy rain, in a protest for better salaries, also leaving messages for the new government, led by Luís Montenegro. At 3pm, the young people gathered in Rossio and then set off towards the Assembly of the Republic, and not even the […]