NRP Portugal

MeasureDescriptionCurrentstatus: inpreparation/ in progressExpected results until2010NotesCreation ofemployment policiesspecific to certainareas of activityRequired integration into specific laws: (i) policy for working at home; (ii) naval and highway transport workpolicies.In progressThe Right toVocational trainingAmendments to the Labour Code, promoting the implementation for the ‘right to training’, via: (i)clarification of the student work statute; (ii) adaptation of the "training clause", establishing the mandatorycharacter of admitting entry for youths of up to 18 years of age, not having completed basic school education,being thereby subjected to enrolling in the educational training system; and (iii) reinforcing the right tocontinuous vocational training and the adaptation to mechanisms for its successful accomplishment, such as,for example – comparing the frequency of RVCC processes to continuous training; allowing the accumulationof annual minimum training programs on the part of companies; allowing for these arrangements, relative totraining, to be adapted for collective recruitment and so that the issuing of training certificates becomesmandatory.In progressRegulated and appropriated by thePortuguese business community via itsincorporation into businessmanagement.Promote collectivebusiness activityCollective Work Conventions: 1 – Alteration of the current legal framework in relation to the law and that ofthe IRCC and individual work contracts, defining that the work contract regulatory legal standards can bedisregarded by the IRCC, when: (i) they result in the contrary; (ii) are more favourable to workers, when theyrespect the following topics: a) personality, equality and non-discrimination rights; b) parenting protection; c)child labour; d) workers with reduced capacity workload, having chronic disability or illness; e) studentworkers; f) obligation on the part of the employer to supply information; g) limits to the duration of normaldaily and weekly work periods; h) minimum duration of free time, including the minimum duration of annualholidays; i) maximum working time periods for night workers; j) types of performance bonuses and wageguarantees; k) the area of health, cleanliness and safety; l) accidents at work and professional illnesses; m)transference between companies or establishments; n) the rights of the elected work representatives. 2 –Alteration of the outmoded and out-of-date collective work convention policies.In progressArbitration Mechanism for Collective Work Conventions: The creation of a necessary arbitration mechanism,actionable at the request of one of the parties, for guaranteeing the future of the collective work conventions.In progress45