Portugal is the leading country in terms of job insecurity, with an index 10 percent higher than the EU 27 average. Abuses to an ill-conceived flexibility weaken the country's economy and worsen social discrepancies. Kept silent for a long time, job insecurity is now at the heart of the debate for the reform of the labor code. (Ref. 080625)
The civil society recently took hold of this issue, with the rise of protest movements in Portugal, with groups such as the FERVE (“sick of those green receipts”) or the PIs (the Inflexible Precarious). An unprecedented fact, the text written and signed by the social partners in June 2008 (see our article No. 080538) on the reform of the labor code gives more weight to the fight against job insecurity.The CGTP, the country’s main trade union, close to the Communist Party, didn’t sign it because it judged that the measures proposed didn’t guarantee workers’ rights and wouldn’t prevent flexibility abuses.
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