Next year will begin with the resumption of discussions on the labor package. The changes that the Government wants to make to labor laws will mark the beginning of 2026. CGTP has already scheduled a demonstration in Lisbon for January 13th.
There are tens of thousands of signatures that CGTP collected to deliver to the prime minister, as proof of workers’ rejection of changes to labor laws.
But it won’t be when he goes to São Bento, for the meeting with Luís Montenegro, that he will take them because after the , one has already been scheduled for that purpose. And until that day January 13thcontinues to collect signatures.
On December 16th, when the Minister of Labor met with the UGT, the CGTP was once again called to negotiate the labor package.
The confirmation was given by the Prime Minister at the end of the inauguration of the Mondego metro, which was received with a protest from… CGTP and when only a few days had passed since then, the impact of which the Government considered “insignificant”.
Less than a week before the strike, labor changes had already marked the last fortnightly debate of 2025.
The prime minister was fighting for changes that the minister had defended since the summer, since on July 24th he placed in Social Concentration a draft Work XXI that immediately deserved criticism.
Changes to parenting regimes and flexibilization of contracts have brought to public discussion a Labor Code that the Government guarantees will not give up on review.
Which is, indeed, to continue and I said this after the meeting that the UGT came out saying that it is still far from reaching an agreement.
The UGT is, for example, against the reintroduction of the time bank or the use of outsourcing by companies that laid off workers during a period of one year. Changes whose discussion will move to 2026.
In a month of January that is expected to be dominated by the campaign, the Government says that the and will take the matter to the Social Concertation of January 14thjust four days before the elections.
