The CoLABOR Days are back, this year with the theme "Employment in Portugal: Diagnoses, Trends and Policies".

O Trabalho Digno: Contexto e Leituras da Agenda (Decent Work: Context and Readings of the Agenda), an event that featured prominent personalities from Academia and Law and the participation of the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho.

The entry into force of Law 13/2023 brought a significant number of changes to the Labor Code and related legislation.To deepen this debate, CoLABOR held the Colloquium "Decent Work: Context and Readings of the Agenda" on July 4 in the Auditorium of the Portuguese Communications Foundation.

The latest data from INE (1st quarter of 2023) shows an increase in salaries in the private sector and a loss of purchasing power in the public sector. Frederico Cantante, a researcher at CoLABOR, commented on the latest available data on RTP3's 360 programme and addressed some of the issues that explain the evolution of pay in Portugal, namely the country's economic specialization profile, wage inequalities and internal disproportion, collective bargaining and the scope of unionization.

This webinar presents the main conclusions of the CoLABOR study "Wages in Portugal: patterns of evolution, inflation and inequalities", by researchers Frederico Cantante and Pedro Estêvão.

Version 2.0 of DataLABOR, the largest database of publicly available information on labor, employment and social protection issues in Portugal, is now available.

Free access at datalabor.pt

The discussion around the Decent Work Agenda is one of the most important political debates at the start of this decade, first and foremost because the current socio-economic context is substantially different from the last major transformation of labor laws in Portugal, which took place in 2003 with the approval of the Labor Code.