With more than five million people employed, the Portuguese labour market currently has one of the highest weekly working hours in Europe, but salary levels below the EU average and one of the five highest rates of temporary contracts among the various countries of the Old Continent. The portrait is drawn by Pordata on the Day...
From salaries to working hours, including precariousness. This is the Portuguese labour market
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