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President of the Republic António José Seguro emphasizes the need for a balanced labour agreement while maintaining an active schedule of high-level institutional meetings.
Álvaro Mendonça also believes that the UGT will not present new proposals before the social dialogue meeting. Furthermore, the USA threatens to impose sanctions on anyone providing services to Iranian airlines.
The backup plan will take place in Parliament. However, on the eve of the decisive UGT meeting, the Government insists on still admitting the possibility of an agreement on labour reform within the social dialogue.
The Prime Minister was speaking at the official residence in São Bento after receiving the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado.
The centrist MP says the Government is “genuinely interested in reforming labour law” and wants to “reach an agreement within the social dialogue framework.”
The Labour Code reform returns to social dialogue this afternoon, with employers and the UGT at odds and new proposals from the trade union centre on the table.
The Government says it is committed to social dialogue, but the negotiation of the labour package took place mainly at the Ministry of Labour. This is only the fourth time the matter has been brought to the Standing Committee for Social Concertation (CPCS).
The CGTP was summoned to tomorrow's social dialogue meeting, but the secretary-general, Tiago Oliveira, complains that he has not received the latest version of the amendments to the labour code.
A new meeting of the social concertation council is scheduled for Thursday at 9 PM, involving all social partners.
Meetings will no longer be tripartite between the UGT, the Government, and employers, and will now include the CGTP, which is part of the social dialogue council. Additionally, the president of the CEP speaks about compensation for victims of abuse.
Employers state they are waiting for meetings to be scheduled with the President of the Republic.
It will be necessary for the Government to act in good faith and recognise that, in a democracy, it cannot confront and disrespect the trade union movement that represents workers. Opinion by São José Almeida.
Commerce and Services and UGT will elect new members this year. Tourism will have a new president in 2027.
Mariana Leitão states that “the position of the UGT reveals today, once again, that social dialogue no longer represents the workers. It represents only seven percent of the workers.”
“By marginalising the CGTP-IN, the Government is not just excluding an interlocutor, it is delegitimising the social dialogue process itself” - When proposals to amend labour legislation are discussed without the CGTP, the opinion of a member of the secretariat.
For ten days in May, the city of Viseu will be a territory for artistic, social, and human dialogues that challenge the community to reflect on the contemporary world and its borders.
The negotiation process of the labour law is a communicative application.
Why not involve all citizens, and not just corporations of dubious representation? Why not replace social dialogue with democratic dialogue?
Reflecting on the economic progress of the Madeira Autonomous Region, the author contrasts its social dialogue model with the current national political landscape. The text criticises the Minister of Labour's exclusive negotiations with a single trade union and highlights the growing disparity between record corporate profits and the stagnant wages of experienced, mid-career professionals. The author argues for a career progression model that rewards seniority and skill acquisition, similar to the public sector, and calls for an end to promotion caps to better support the 'unsung heroes' of the corporate world.
During this Wednesday's fortnightly debate, the Prime Minister promised that the executive “will truly do everything and exhaust all possibilities” to reach an agreement in social dialogue regarding labour reform before taking it to the Assembly of the Republic.
The article reports that the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) considers discussions on the labor package by the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP) to be beneficial. It highlights the PCP's positive stance on the CGTP engaging in dialogue regarding labor reforms, emphasizing the importance of such discussions for workers' rights and social dialogue in Portugal.
If the President of the Republic cannot manage it, no one else will. Seguro calls for an additional effort and all the protagonists have shown themselves to be available. And do the ministers have less power than people think?
The Secretary-General of the Socialist Party (PS), José Luís Carneiro, said today that it is the General Union of Workers (UGT) that Hugo Soares should ask to dialogue with, and not the PS, as he challenged them to do today.
Sérgio Monte, deputy secretary-general of the UGT, provides an update on the status of labour law negotiations within the social dialogue council.
Employer confederations concluded this Monday that there are no conditions for an agreement with the UGT and the Government. Positions remain far apart, regardless of further attempts. What does a disagreement in social dialogue imply? Negócios explains.
Parliamentary leader Hugo Soares said he wants to wait for a “final position, both from the Government and from the social partners”.
José Luís Carneiro, secretário-geral do Partido Socialista em Portugal, afirmou que quem deseja dialogar com a UGT (União Geral dos Trabalhadores) deve solicitar diretamente à própria UGT, não ao PS. Ele respondeu ao líder parlamentar do PSD, Hugo Soares, que desafiou o PS a pedir à UGT para retomar negociações sobre o pacote laboral. Carneiro criticou a tentativa de o PS intervir na relação entre o governo e os parceiros sociais, defendendo que o diálogo deve ser conduzido pela UGT. O debate ocorreu em meio a tensões sobre o andamento das negociações laborais e a falta de acordo na concertação social em Portugal.
The article reports that José Luís Carneiro, Secretary-General of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), criticized the Portuguese government for demonstrating a “lack of democratic humility” during recent social dialogue on labor legislation. Carneiro highlighted that the government failed to reach agreements with key social partners, including the UGT union, which he claims was due to the government's inflexibility. He expressed disappointment over the timing of negotiations, especially coinciding with the President's inauguration, and criticized the proposed labor reforms as particularly harmful to youth, women, and vulnerable workers. Carneiro called for the government to create conditions conducive to renewed dialogue with social partners.
On the day he signed an agreement with the UGT on public service matters, the prime minister vowed to work to reconcile positions in the review of labour law and denied a 'civilisational regression'.
The Minister of the Economy argues the labour package will only 'get off the ground' if it is agreed through social dialogue and stresses he hopes 'there is still room for an agreement in the social dialogue'. 'The so‑called labour package has to be agreed in social dialogue, otherwise it won't get off the ground,' Castro Almeida said, in ...
