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"La directive (UE) 2019/1158 concernant l'équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée des parents et des aidants est l'une des premières initiatives visant à promouvoir le Socle Européen des Droits Sociaux. Elle a le mérite de formaliser clairement le lien entre la conciliation du travail et de la vie familiale et l'égalité entre les hommes et les femmes, s'agissant notamment des opportunités sur le marché du travail et du traitement au travail. Cet article soulignera les aspects plus substantiels de la directive et son impact sur la législation portugaise. Une partie des nouveautés introduites par la directive 2019/1158 ne nécessitent pas d'être transposée au plan national, car le cadre portugais va déjà au-delà des dispositions minimales du droit de l'UE. Néanmoins, certains aspects doivent conduire à la modification de la législation portugaise et contribueront certainement à améliorer la conciliation entre travail et famille."

"This article discusses the main changes introduced to the Portuguese labour market following the adoption of the Memorandum of Understanding of 2011. The intent behind the Memorandum's demands was to reduce the costs related to employment contracts, to expand both internal and external flexibility, and to relaunch collective bargaining under a new and more decentralised framework. However, several measures ended up being at odds not only with the Portuguese Constitution, but also with ILO Conventions and the (Revised) European Social Charter. We address the changes to wage policies, working time, employment protection legislation, and collective bargaining, which gave way to a new ‘flexibility-oriented' labour relations model, characterised by a global reduction of labour protection levels. We argue that not only were these measures unable to fix the problems of the Portuguese labour market, but they also had crippling effects on social rights in general and, most particularly, on workers' rights. Moreover, despite the overcoming of the economic crisis, as well as the changes to the political scene, the most significant alterations were maintained. This demonstrates that bailout reforms leave their mark, particularly when they correspond to measures previously under discussion and when their implementation is supported by external pressures."

"COVID-19 led to an extraordinary increase in both telework and remote work, exposing some of the fragilities and loopholes of the Portuguese applicable regulation and leading the Portuguese Parliament to approve a new law on teleworking in the form of an amendment to the Labour Code aimed at extending the protection of teleworkers. This paper intends to analyse this new regulation implemented by Law No. 83/2021 of 6 December regarding its concept and scope of application; the telework agreement and the principle of volunteering; teleworkers' rights and employers' duties related to equipment, tools and teleworking-related expenses; employers' duty to abstain from any contact during rest periods; privacy and data protection; health, safety and work-related accidents; and the right to telework, namely for work-life balance reasons. The final objective is to provide a critical overview of the legal regulation, assessing its strengths and weaknesses."