Latest news and stories about parental leave in finance in Portugal for expats and residents.
An overview of the updates to initial parental leave entitlements following the latest labour market reforms introduced by the Government.
A parliamentary move — despite abstentions from PSD and CDS-PP — brings Portugal closer to lengthening the initial parental leave available to working parents. The new episode of the 'Ao Trabalho!' podcast examines that development alongside other labour‑market highlights, offering concise analysis of labour, social-security and employment-law developments every Thursday.
The figure is lower than the 445 million euros estimated by the Government. Opposition proposals cost between 33 million and 290 million euros, warns the Technical Budget Support Unit.
Parliamentary services state that the 445 million euros indicated by the Government 'should be read as an upper limit' and 'not as a central estimate', calculating an annual expenditure of 230 million.
The PS questions the figures presented to MPs and requests an assessment from the Technical Budget Support Unit to clarify the discrepancy compared to the 116 million presented by the Social Security Institute.
In an all-female panel at the CDS-PP parliamentary conference, the former party president advocated for equal parental leave for mothers and fathers, as well as other measures such as extending the Youth IRS tax scheme to families with children and discounts on IMT property tax.
Within the group, one still hears 'colleagues from PHC Software' and 'colleagues from Cegid'. However, the goal is to step-by-step create a 'unique culture' common to both the employees who were already at the multinational and those who arrived from the acquired tech company. Human Resources Director Rita Cadillon tells ECO that...
