The entry into force of Law 13/2023 brought a significant number of changes to the Labor Code and related legislation. However, their scope and the characteristics of their impact will be revealed by the dynamics and meanings resulting from their application/effectiveness over time, and it is certain that the initial interpretations are always relevant.

On April 12, the director of CoLABOR, Manuel Carvalho da Silva, will be one of the speakers at the CIP Conference "Fulfilling Portugal - Dimension, Innovation, Internationalization", on the panel dedicated to "The importance of social dialogue".

On March 23, at 5:30 p.m., Livraria Almedina will launch the book "The persistence of the devaluation of work and the urgency of its revaluation", coordinated by Maria da Paz Campos Lima and José Castro Caldas. Manuel Carvalho da Silva, director of CoLABOR, will give the presentation.

This webinar presents the main conclusions of the CoLABOR study "Wages in Portugal: patterns of evolution, inflation and inequalities", by researchers Frederico Cantante and Pedro Estêvão.

The study "Wages in Portugal: patterns of evolution, inflation and inequalities" analyzes the evolution of the real value of wages in Portugal since the beginning of the millennium and the wage inequalities associated with gender, nationality, contractual precariousness and educational qualifications of workers in the different sectors of economic activity.

In the podcast "What if we talked about Europe" by MEP Margarida Marques, CoLABOR coordinator Manuel Carvalho da Silva shares his perspective on various issues related to the world of work, namely the importance of lifelong skills for workers, but also for companies.

CoLABOR is associated with the Population Sciences PhD program and is one of the two host institutions under the support model recently created by the Foundation for Science and Technology for applications in a non-academic environment.

Version 2.0 of DataLABOR, the largest database of publicly available information on labor, employment and social protection issues in Portugal, is now available.

Free access at datalabor.pt

CoLABOR, the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection, and its Associates organized on December 12th, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (auditorium 3), the CoLABOR 2022 Days dedicated to the theme “Work: Asymmetries and Socioeconomic Change” .

The discussion around the Decent Work Agenda is one of the most important political debates at the start of this decade, first and foremost because the current socio-economic context is substantially different from the last major transformation of labor laws in Portugal, which took place in 2003 with the approval of the Labor Code.

The Event “WORK PLATFORMS: Urban Mobility and Labor Rights”, which will take place on September 27th, at 2 pm, at the Palácio Galveias Library, promoted by CoLABOR in partnership with the European project PLUS – Platform Labor in Urban Spaces, has as a general theme, the socioeconomic implications that arise from the business model based on the economy of digital platforms in the urban mobility sector.

CoLABOR has work, employment and social protection at the center of its Agenda. The debate surrounding the Decent Work Agenda therefore deserves reinforced attention from this Collaborative Laboratory. Several research works have been developed that contribute to that objective (see https://colabor.pt/projetos/) and reflection texts with a more legal nature have been made available. (see at https://trabalhodigno.colabor.pt/)

Structured in several thematic chapters corresponding to the respective areas of governance, "The State of the Nation and Public Policies", prepared annually by Iscte's Institute of Public and Social Policy since 2019, aims to contribute to the reflection of public policies through the

promoting informed and open debate on state intervention in the different areas of governance.

The Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment (CITE) has teamed up with "CoLABOR - Laboratory for Labour, Employment and Social Protection" as part of a study on the effects of ways of organizing working time, with a particular focus on shift work and night work and their effects on workers and employers.

This study, requested by the Government of Portugal, was led and coordinated by David Mosler (EUROPE) and carried out by a multidisciplinary research team made up of experts from the ILO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (EUROPE), the ILO Employment Policy Department (EMPLOYMENT) and CoLABOR researchers.

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".