On 7th March 2008, a long-awaited new law on tourist developments was published in Portugal’s official Government Gazette, the Diário da República . The decree law came into force on 7 th April.
This law was approved within the...

In Portuguese legal system there is a huge distinction between the long term employment contracts and the short term ones. In fact, it was in 1976 that the law for short term contracts was first approved in Portugal. It was only in 1985 with...

New rules regarding the simplification of incorporating and registering a company in Portugal will come into effect on 1st January 2006. Until then, on 13th July 2005 an experimental application of these rules has been put into practice.
In...