CoLABOR promotes reflection and debate around the Decent Work Agenda, one of the most important political moments of this decade for the world of work.

A group of researchers from CoLABOR took part in the public consultation of the preliminary version of the national strategy to combat poverty, which ended last Monday. This group produced and submitted a document on the ConsultaLEX portal with a set of suggestions, which is intended to be a constructive contribution to improving the strategy.

On November 4th, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CoLABOR, the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection, promoted an international meeting entitled “Work in Climate and Digital Transitions”, with the aim of contributing to reflection and qualification of the debate public about the repercussions that these changes, accelerated by the pandemic crisis and the subsequent global economic and social crisis, bring to working conditions and employment, as well as to social protection and labor regulation.

CoLABOR developed the "State of the Nation in Figures" data platform for the Institute for Public and Social Policy (IPPS), in partnership with the latter, which complements the report that the institute publishes every year and which presents a detailed analysis of the national situation in different dimensions.

The nationwide study "Work, teleworking and social distancing", promoted by CoLABOR, was one of the international examples, along with the British and Dutch experiences, presented in the panel on teleworking at the event "Policies to reduce the gender employment gap in the Hungarian labor market".

The Coordinating Researcher of CoLABOR's Labor, Employment and Technology line, Tiago Santos Pereira, took part last Tuesday in the RTP program É OU NÃO É, whose theme was "What will the future of work look like?".

CoLABOR is carrying out a study on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Care Homes for the Elderly", through the application of an online questionnaire survey to all Residential Structures for the Elderly (ERPI) and Long Duration and Maintenance Units (ULDM) of the National Network of Integrated Continued Care (RNCCI) in mainland Portugal.

CoLABOR has created a simulator for the new social benefit - "Extraordinary income support for workers" - which allows you to calculate the individual value of this benefit, as well as its duration, according to the information provided by the user.

DataLABOR provides national and international data on work, employment and social protection. It was born out of a collaborative laboratory, CoLABOR, which brings together higher education, three of the country's largest employers and the social sector. It will contribute to the formulation of public policies, such as the response to the pandemic caused by COVID-19, and at the same time provide companies, trade unions, business organizations and the third sector with the information they need to manage, make decisions and formulate strategies.

On June 22, a discussion took place on the challenges and opportunities for research and development offered by the hydrogen economy. CoLABOR was asked to comment on its impact on work and employment.

The “Skills 4 post-COVID-19 for Science and Higher Education” initiative promoted by the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection (CoLABOR), in cooperation with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, took place in the past July 3rd.

CoLABOR – Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection organized, on April 29, 2019, the international conference Work 4.0: Technology, Work and Employment in the 21st Century. The session aimed to present CoLABOR, the DataLABOR information platform and its research and intervention agenda and discuss the present and future impacts of new technologies on work and employment.