European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legal regulations provides information on regulations in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change.
286, 423, 427 and 429, 554 and 555.
The transferor and the transferee must inform the workers’ representatives (or the employees themselves if there is no works council) about the date and grounds for business transfer, its legal, economic and social consequences for workers and the planned measures regarding workers. This information must be provided in writing before the business transfer in a timely manner, at least 10 days prior to the consultation (article 286).
The transferor and the transferee shall consult the workers’ representatives before the business transfer takes place, in order to reach an agreement on the measures they intend to apply to workers as a result of the business transfer (article 286).
The works council shall request to the management, in writing, the information due. This shall be provided, also in writing, within eight days, unless due to its complexity a longer period is justified (this cannot exceed 15 days). The works council has the right to participate in the restructuring processes. In case of restructuring of the majority of the companies which works councils are coordinated by a coordination council, this also has the right to participate in the restructuring processes (article 427).
Both councils have the right to be consulted and to issue a prior opinion. They should be informed on the evolution of the subsequent actions and on the final restructuring instruments before their approval. They also have the right to meet the company’s unit responsible and to present suggestions, claims or criticism to the competent company's bodies (article 429).
Articles 554 and 555 of the Labour Code establishes the consequences in case of non-compliance. The Labour Code states that a variable fine is applied in conformity with the scale of seriousness of the administrative offences in the field of labour and according to the firm's volume of business and the degree of the law-breaker's culpability. The fine may vary between 2 and 600 Units of Account (UC). Since 2009, the value of UC has been maintained at €102.
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Eurofound (2015), Portugal: Staff information and consultation on business transfers, Restructuring legislation database, Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/legislationdb/staff-information-and-consultation-on-business-transfers/portugal
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