Part-time work
This corresponds to normal weekly working hours equal to or less than 75% of those worked on a full-time basis in a comparable situation. Part-time employees enjoy the same rights and the same protection as full-time employees, unless different treatment is justified on objective grounds. Employees with a reduced capacity for work, people with chronic disabilities or illnesses and employees who are attending intermediate or higher education courses must be given preference in the hiring of part-time labour. Part-time employees' remuneration may not be less than the fraction of the remuneration of full-time employees corresponding to the adjusted working hours.
Temporary employment agency work
A scheme under which employees hired by a temporary employment enterprise undertake to work for a user enterprise. Temporary contracts of employment must be set down in writing, in duplicate, and must be entered into by the employee and the temporary employment enterprise. Contracts for the use of temporary labour (contracts entered into between the temporary employment enterprise and the user enterprise) are permitted only in the following cases: replacement of an absent employee, the need to fill jobs which are vacant when a recruitment process is under way; a temporary or exceptional increase in workload; a well-defined short-lived task; seasonal tasks; intermittent manpower requirements determined by fluctuations in workload; manpower requirements for carrying out projects which are limited in time, namely the setting up and restructuring of enterprises or establishments, assembly work and industrial repairs.
Itinerant work
Work in the shipping sector, railways and the transport of people and goods are regulated by multi-employer agreements. These agreements apply specific provisions in terms of working hours, for example. If the work involves travelling, the costs incurred are paid by means of daily subsistence allowances and by reimbursing accommodation expenses.
Homeworking
This corresponds to work performed in the employee's home or establishment, without legal subordination, the employee being deemed to be economically dependent on the beneficiary of the activity. Homeworkers and the beneficiary of the activity are covered, as beneficiary and contributor respectively, by the general social security scheme for employed labour.
Telework
The provision of work usually carried out, with legal subordination, outside the employer's enterprise by means of information and communication technologies.
Domestic work
The hiring of workers to perform activities whose purpose is to meet the personal or special needs of a family unit, its equivalent and its members, i.e.: preparation of meals, laundry, housework, supervision of and the provision of care for children, the elderly and the sick, etc. Domestic work contracts do not have a special form unless a fixed-term contract is entered into, in which case they must be in writing. Domestic work contracts involve a probation period of 90 days, unless a written stipulation provides for this period to be eliminated or reduced.
Useful information:
- Law No 35/2004 of 29 July; Decree Law No 235/92 of 24 October
- IDICT – Instituto do Desenvolvimento e Inspecção das Condições de Trabalho [Institute for the Development and Inspection of Working Conditions]
Praça de Alvalade, 1 - 1749-073 Lisbon
Tel: 217 924 500
Fax: 217 924 597
Text last edited on: 12/2004
Source: European Union
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