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Hotel management firm Highgate Portugal is heading to the Algarve with a major recruitment push, aiming to hire around 240 employees to boost its hospitality teams across the country. The The post 240 job opportunities at Algarve hotel recruitment event appeared first on Portugal Resident.

Cosme Santos, originally from Sergipe, arrived in Portugal three years ago and today employs Portuguese and Brazilian staff at his furniture company and is planning international expansion. The business began with €2,700.

I decided to try to return to Portugal. Naively, I was convinced that my experience abroad would bring me better opportunities and that Portugal would want me back...

The owner of Pingo Doce opened more than one store per day in 2025, totalling 448 new outlets. Biedronka opened 15 stores in Slovakia, marking the Polish chain's first international expansion.

Sónia Glória, 23, has a motor disability that limits her movement and speech, but that did not stop her from finding a place in the labour market. For more than a year she has worked at the cinema in a shopping centre, where she carries out day-to-day tasks ranging from validating tickets to providing support in the screening rooms.
Compete will open five funding calls in January for large companies, accounting for roughly one third of the programme’s corporate allocation under Portugal 2030, the agency’s president told ECO dos Fundos. The calls come with strengthened support rates aimed at accelerating project implementation and unlocking private investment. For large firms, the tranche presents a concentrated opportunity to secure EU-backed grants that could expedite capital expenditure, support job-creating projects and align corporate investment with Portugal 2030 priorities. The measure also signals an administrative push to deploy funds faster, with potential sectoral and regional impacts depending on application uptake and award conditions.

Home Business Claire’s stores to be saved in Portugal Claire’s stores to be saved in Portugal A French investor has stepped in to prevent the closure of 31 Claire’s stores in Portugal, safeguarding around 200 jobs and ending the company’s insolvency proceedings in the country.

The Socialists are calling for 'social support measures, professional retraining and the creation of conditions for a swift reintegration into the labour market', following Sicasal's insolvency.


Decathlon's operations in Portugal have increased their minimum monthly salary to €1,000 before tax.
The unemployment rate fell to 5.7% in November 2025, 0.1 percentage points lower than in October and 0.9 percentage points below November 2024, according to the provisional estimate released today by the INE.
The State Budget (OE) is one of the most important instruments for the future of citizens, including our young people, even when there are no tangible signs in everyday life. It is through the OE that the State decides where to invest collective resources and what the priorities are for the country’s development, directly influencing opportunities ...

Julien Jarjoura, an investor based in Switzerland, has acquired Claire’s European business, preserving roughly 200 jobs in Portugal and maintaining the brand’s retail footprint across Europe. The purchase effectively separates the continental operation from insolvency proceedings affecting Claire’s in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, stabilising local employment and stores while broader group restructuring and creditor processes continue.

More than 4,000 people registered for the competition to admit new officers to the Public Security Police (PSP), the highest number in the past five years, the PSP told Lusa on Tuesday. The PSP ran a competition between 28 November and 23 December 2025 to establish a recruitment reserve for ...

Less bureaucracy in public services, greater recognition of the importance of immigrants, job opportunities, political awareness, compassion for others and protection for women. Here is the Brazilians' wish list.

The Prime Minister has defended a government labour reform aimed at guaranteeing ‘decent wages’ by promoting better jobs and stronger pay protections, framing the measure as central to improving employment quality. Separately, António José Seguro urged an urgent restoration of social cohesion in Portugal, stressing that community rebuilding is necessary alongside policy reforms to address economic and social challenges.

398 candidates applied, but only 89 reached the final stage. The appeal of positions in Lisbon is lower despite improvements to the career conditions for TEPH (pre-hospital emergency technicians). A temporary accommodation solution remains unresolved.

The Prime Minister has his sights set on increasing productivity and creating wealth to raise wages in Portugal.

An average of five thousand people per day will invade the Algarve in 2027 and 2028 to provide services to the teams and prepare the Algarve International Circuit (AIA) for the Formula 1 Portuguese Grand Prix. According to the organisers' perspective, between 60,000 and 80,000 spectators will join them...

Home News Dutch tech company hiring in Portugal Dutch tech company hiring in Portugal The Dutch group Conclusion, through its company Neotalent Conclusion, has inaugurated a new office in the Trinity Porto complex for its 115 employees.

The Dutch group Conclusion, through its company Neotalent Conclusion, has inaugurated a new office in the Trinity Porto complex for its 115 employees. The tech company expects to hire an additional 50 professionals over the next two years. "The opening of this new office in Porto reflects the strong relationship we have been building over the past ten years with ...

Lidl is investing eight million euros in the opening of a new store in Évora, Portugal.

Winner of the National Tourism Award 2025 in the Community Tourism category, Mezze Escola is transforming how Lisbon integrates migrants into the tourism sector by combining technical training, social inclusion, and a direct response to the labour shortage in the restaurant industry.

These are examples of integrating people with disabilities into the job market and result from a group of parents of children and young people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities who promote inclusion and autonomy.
