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Lei n.º 7/2009, de 12 de fevereiro, que aprova a revisão do Código do Trabalho

Lei n.º 7/2009, de 12 de fevereiro; Diário da República, legislação consolidada, versão de 27 de março de 2025 · Portugal · Binding instrument

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A set of 107 working files that organise the duties of Lei n.º 7/2009, de 12 de fevereiro into open questions a business answers from its own records, with the statutory text carried verbatim beside each duty.

This instrument reaches employers of every size in Portugal and the people who work for them, whether under an open ended contract, a fixed term contract or a temporary posting. It governs hiring, pay, working time, rest periods, parental leave, health and safety, training, disciplinary matters and the ending of contracts. The working files walk through those duties as open questions a business answers from its own records, and the statutory text is carried verbatim beside each duty.

The files also cover the collective side of employment: trade union rights, works councils, collective bargaining, strikes and the arbitration that follows. A further group addresses the records an employer keeps, the notices it gives and the reports it files. Each section serves the relevant provisions through a connector inside Claude, and nothing is downloaded or installed.

The documents that come back are dated compliance reports the business keeps in its own file. The toolkit never gives advice and never presents a perspective; it carries what the authority wrote, organised.

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Which businesses does this instrument apply to?

It applies to employers in Portugal and to the people who work for them, including companies that hire staff, take on trainees or post workers temporarily. It also reaches the bodies that represent workers, such as trade unions and works councils. The working files set out the duties that follow for each of them.

What does the toolkit contain?

It is a set of 107 working files that organise the instrument's obligations into phases of open questions. A business answers those questions from its own records, and the statutory text is carried verbatim beside each duty. The files are served through a connector inside Claude.

How are the files delivered?

The sections are served through a connector inside Claude. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed. A business opens the connector and works through the questions from its own records.

What do the files cover on hiring and contracts?

They cover the prohibition of certain hiring practices, the information an employer must give a new worker, trial periods, fixed term contracts and the limits on their duration and renewal. They also address part time work, temporary agency work and the clauses that limit a worker's freedom to take other employment.

What do the files cover on pay and working time?

They address the duty to pay wages, the rules on overtime, daily and weekly rest, public holidays and night work. They also cover the records an employer keeps of hours worked and the notices given when schedules change.

What do the files cover on leave and family rights?

They cover parental leave, initial parental leave, leave for travel, time off for medical appointments and the protection of pregnant workers and workers with young children. They also address the duties of the employer when a worker returns from leave.

What do the files cover on health, safety and training?

They address the employer's duty to provide safe working conditions, to assess risks and to train workers. They also cover professional training and the records that show it took place.

What do the files cover on collective rights?

They cover trade union rights, the constitution and activity of works councils, collective bargaining and the duty to respond to information requests. They also address strikes and the arbitration that may follow.

What do the files cover on ending a contract?

They address dismissal, expiry of fixed term contracts, the notice an employer gives and the documents that must be issued. They also cover the arbitration of disputes over the survival of a contract.

What does a business receive after working through the questions?

The documents that come back are dated compliance reports the business keeps in its own file. Each report records the answers given from the business's own records. The toolkit never gives advice and never presents a perspective; it carries what the authority wrote, organised.

Source: Diário da República. Official text, free of copyright under CDADC art. 7. Official reference: Lei n.º 7/2009, de 12 de fevereiro; Diário da República, legislação consolidada, versão de 27 de março de 2025.

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