It is possible to have common points, communion of interests and mutual collaboration in labor laws, explains a specialist in labor law.
Negotiations around the new labor law resumed this Monday, this time with a different outcome: the .
The proposal under discussion is very different from the initial proposal and now “there is more that brings us closer than there is that separates us”, according to the Minister of Labor, Palma Ramalho.
Since 2025, there has been talk of measures that penalize workers – but Luís Gonçalves da Silva, a specialist in labor law, has a different analysis of labor laws.
“It is assumed that the measures are dichotomous: they are either in favor of employers, or they are in favor of workers. I don’t think it’s like that“.
Luís explained how he can identify “common points, communion of interests, mutual and reciprocal collaboration”.
The expert speaks in a “Manichaean logic and reducing” when discussing this subject.
Luís Gonçalves da Silva remembers that there is not even a final version of the document yet but, for now, the issues of the time bank, the outsourcingovertime and reinstatement, which have prolonged the discord.
But he believes that these points can generate approximation, and not rupture.
The specialist in labor law highlighted two moments in these negotiations: the intervention of the Prime Minister Luis Montenegro and the President of the Republic, Antonio José Seguro – both “softened the tension.”
Luís is skeptical about studies that place Portugal as one of the countries with the strictest labor laws in Europe. “You can’t compare what isn’t comparable. We run the risk of distorting reality. I don’t think it’s one of the strictest in Europe.”
