Portugal

Last update: 14/02/2022

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1980
1980
2000
2002
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
1967
Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention (1952)
1985
Discrimination Convention (Employment and Occupation) (1958)
1959
Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention (1981)
1985
Maternity Protection Convention (2000)
2012
Domestic Workers Convention (2011)
2015
Violence and Harassment at work Convention (2019)
2024

  • Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (2 April, 1976)

  • Law No. 7/2009, approving the revision of the Labour Code (12 February, 2009)

  • Law No. 60/2018, which adopts measures to promote equal pay for women and men for equal work or work of equal value, and amends Law No. 10/2001 (21 May, 2001), which provides for an annual report on equal opportunities between men and women, Law No. 105/2009 (14 September, 2009) regulating and amending the Labour Code, and Decree-Law 76/2012 (26 March, 2012) approving the Organic Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment (21 August, 2018)

  • Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (of 2 April 1976)

  • Law No. 7/2009, approving the revision of the Labour Code (of 12 February 2009)

  • Law No. 83/2021, amending the provisions on remote working in the Labour Code and Law No. 98/2009 (of 6 December 2021)

  • Decree-Law No. 70/2000 on maternity and paternity protection, and subsequent republishing with corrections (of 4 May 2000)

  • Decree-Law No. 89/2009 on parental protection in public employment (9 April, 2009)

  • Law No. 7/2009 approving the Labour Code (12 February, 2009)

  • Law No. 7/2009 approving the revision of the Labour Code (12 February, 2009)

  • Law No. 90/2019 strengthening paternity protection by amending the Labour Code and related legislation (4 September, 2019)

  • Act Law No. 235/92, establishing the legal regime for labour relations deriving from domestic work contracts (24 October, 1992)

  • Code of Contributory Schemes of the Social Security System. Ordinance No. 50/2019, determining the sustainability factor and the normal age of access to the old-age pension (February 8, 2019).

  • Law No. 110/2009, approving the Code on Contributory Schemes from the Social Security System (16 September, 2009)

  • Ordinance No. 53/2021, establishing the normal age for accessing the old-age pension of the general social security system in 2022 (10 March, 2021)

  • Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. 2 April 1976.

  • Decree-Law 78/ 2021. Legal regime for the prevention and combat of unauthorised financial activities and consumer protection. 24 November 2021.

  • Decree-Law 298/ 92. General legal regime for credit institutions and financial companies. 31 December 1992.

  • Decree-Law 91/ 2018. Legal regime for payment services and electronic money. 12 November 2018.

  • Decree-Law 74-A/ 2017. Approves the legal regime for credit agreements relating to property assets, laying down the rules applicable to consumer credit secured by a mortgage or other right over immovable property. 23 June 2017.

  • Decree-Law 27-C/ 2000. Creates a system that ensures access to minimum banking services. 10 March 2000.

  • Decree-Law 134/ 2009. Establishes the legal regime applicable to the provision of promotion, information and support services to consumers and users through call centres. 2 June 2009.

  • Decree-Law 95/ 2006. Establishes the regime applicable to pre-contractual information and contracts relating to financial services provided to consumers through means of distance communication by suppliers authorised to operate in Portugal. 29 May 2006.

  • Decree-Law 133/ 2009. Transposes Directive 2008/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on credit agreements for consumers into national law. 2 June 2009.

  • Law 24/96. Establishes the legal regime applicable to consumer protection, superseding Law 29/81 of 22 August 1981. 31 July 2006.

  • Law 5/98. Organic Law on the Central Bank. 31 January 1998.

  • Decree-Law 227/ 2012. Establishes the principles and rules to be observed by Credit Institutions in the monitoring and management of situations of non-payment risk and in the non-judicial regularisation of default on capital repayment obligations or payment of remunerative interest by bank customers in relation to credit contracts. 25 October 2012.

  • Decree-Law 144/ 2009. Establishes, together with the Bank of Portugal, the Credit Ombudsman, whose mission is to defend and promote the rights, guarantees and legitimate interests of all individuals or entities party to credit agreements and improve access to credit in the financial system. 17 June 2009.

  • Decree-Law 11/ 2022. Establishes the legal regime for equity loans. 12 January 2022.

  • Decree-Law 12/ 2010. Establishes microcredit finance companies. 19 February 2010.

  • Law 119/2015. Cooperative code. 31 August 2015.

  • Law No. 4/2018 (of 9 February 2018)

  • Circular Series A No. 1410 (of 26 July 2024)

  • Law No. 82/2023 (of 29 December 2023)

  • Decree-Law No. 10/2023 (of 8 February 2023)

  • Decree-Law 400, establishing the Criminal Code (of 23 September 1982)

  • Law No. 19, enacting the twenty-ninth amendment to the Criminal Code and the first amendment to Law 112/2009 (of 21 February 2013)

  • Law No. 13, amending the Labour Code and related legislation as part of the decent work programme (of 3 April 2023)

  • Law 102, on occupational risk prevention (of 23 December 2009)

  • Law No. 60/2018, adopting measures to promote equal pay for women and men for equal work or work of equal value, and amending Law No. 10/2001 of 21 May, which establishes an annual report on equal opportunities between men and women, pursuant to Law No. 105/2009 of 14 September, which regulates and amends the Labour Code, and Decree-Law 76/2012, of 26 March, approving the Organic Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment (of 21 August 2018)

  • Law 61, guaranteeing adequate protection for female victims of violence (of 13 August 1991)

  • Law 31, implementing the legislation guaranteeing protection for female victims of violence (of 14 April 1999)

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