5th Labor Law Conference: "Decent Work Agenda: Challenges and Opportunities".

September 28th and 29th, Ponta Delgada

CoLABOR has just published the study "Impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes". This study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential facilities for the elderly (ERPI), based on an analysis of sociodemographic, territorial and organizational factors.

Policies in Analysis No. 10 "The ban on outsourcing services in the 2023 labor reform" is part of a series of legal analysis texts that COLABOR has been producing as part of the Decent Work Agenda, with a view to contributing to the discussion and debate on public policies in the labor area.

The report "The State of the Nation and Public Policies 2023", an initiative of IPPS-Iscte and released today, focuses on a reflection on structural reforms in different areas of governance, namely Employment, Justice, Housing, Social Security, Social Protection, Immigration, Health, Education, Science and Higher Education.

CoLABOR contributed to this initiative by developing and updating the "State of the Nation in Figures" information platform.

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.

CoLABOR is associated with the Population Sciences PhD program and is one of the host institutions under the support model recently created by the Foundation for Science and Technology for applications in a non-academic environment.

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 entry into force of Law 13/2023 brought a significant number of changes to the Labor Code and related legislation. However, their scope and the characteristics of their impact will be revealed by the dynamics and meanings resulting from their application/effectiveness over time, and it is certain that the initial interpretations are always relevant.

The first workshop of the international INCA_eu project, of which CoLABOR is one of the partner organizations, has as its theme "Global infrastructures: the production of the modern world".

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.

The entry into force of Law 13/2023 brought a significant number of changes to the Labor Code and related legislation. However, their scope and the characteristics of their impact will be revealed by the dynamics and meanings resulting from their application/effectiveness over time, and it is certain that the initial interpretations are always relevant.

On April 12, the director of CoLABOR, Manuel Carvalho da Silva, will be one of the speakers at the CIP Conference "Fulfilling Portugal - Dimension, Innovation, Internationalization", on the panel dedicated to "The importance of social dialogue".

On March 23, at 5:30 p.m., Livraria Almedina will launch the book "The persistence of the devaluation of work and the urgency of its revaluation", coordinated by Maria da Paz Campos Lima and José Castro Caldas. Manuel Carvalho da Silva, director of CoLABOR, will give the presentation.

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.

The study "Wages in Portugal: patterns of evolution, inflation and inequalities" analyzes the evolution of the real value of wages in Portugal since the beginning of the millennium and the wage inequalities associated with gender, nationality, contractual precariousness and educational qualifications of workers in the different sectors of economic activity.

In the podcast "What if we talked about Europe" by MEP Margarida Marques, CoLABOR coordinator Manuel Carvalho da Silva shares his perspective on various issues related to the world of work, namely the importance of lifelong skills for workers, but also for companies.

CoLABOR is associated with the Population Sciences PhD program and is one of the two host institutions under the support model recently created by the Foundation for Science and Technology for applications in a non-academic environment.

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

CoLABOR, the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection, and its Associates organized on December 12th, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (auditorium 3), the CoLABOR 2022 Days dedicated to the theme “Work: Asymmetries and Socioeconomic Change” .

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.