PRESS RELEASE

Tomorrow, July 4, in Lisbon, between 2:15 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., in the auditorium of the Portuguese Communications Foundation, the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection will once again bring to public debate the Decent Work Agenda and the respective changes that Law 13/2023 brought to the Labor Code.

The colloquium on "Decent Work: context and readings of the Agenda" aims to understand the novelties of the current revision and assess its social relevance and legal rigor.

With the revision of the Labor Code, there have been significant changes consisting of the introduction of legislative innovations and the reformulation of existing solutions, some of which may not be correct, given the problems they seek to solve.

In some cases, this revision could add new difficulties, including technical issues of legal formulation, which could generate a problematic field of interpretation, particularly in case law. Some consider the risk of unconstitutionality in regulating the activities of economically dependent service providers. Others see this risk in the prohibition of the possibility of outsourcing to meet the needs of workers made redundant for objective reasons.

CoLABOR has produced texts and organized events and initiatives on the theme of the Decent Work Agenda (see https://trabalhodigno.colabor.pt/). It is within this framework that it is organizing the colloquium tomorrow, July 4. It will be a qualified debate focused on the key aspects of the historical context of decent work and the presentation and discussion of plural readings of the Agenda, relating to relevant topics in the individual and collective dimensions of the employment relationship and labor law. The two panel discussions will feature prominent personalities from the academic and legal world and their respective readings of the recent law.

The event will be opened by the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho.                

>> Available at https://trabalhodigno.colabor.pt/:

- Comparative table comparing the previous legal wording with that which came into force on May 1, 2023, showing the changes of a purely formal nature, the substantive ones and the introduction of new rules

>> Legal analysis texts:

            - The Agenda, the law and precariousness

            - Reconciling work, personal and family life

- Considerations on the changes introduced to the exercise of trade union activity by the legislation approved under the Decent Work Agenda

FOR MORE INFORMATION

comunicacao@colabor.pt