Gonçalo Pinto Ferreira, partner and head in the Labour and Social Security practice at TELLES, shared his views with ECO on the controversial issue of training hours in part-time employment contracts.
The draft labour law reform was approved by the Council of Ministers in July this year. More recently, the government presented a new proposal clarifying that part-time workers are not entitled to the 40 hours of continuing training provided for in full-time contracts. Instead, they should be guaranteed a number of hours proportional to their contracted hours.
TELLES' lawyer points out that the Labour Code, in its current wording, does not contain any specific rules on continuing training applicable to part-time workers. For this reason, he considers it a “matter of prudence” to apply the 40-hour annual training regime to them, since the law does not offer an “unequivocal answer” as to the application of the principle of proportionality.
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