The labour law practice area, composed of one of the largest teams of employment law lawyers in Portugal, currently has 14 lawyers whose technical qualifications, background and experience ensure all client needs are more than met.

The labour law practice area is organised into areas of specialisation to provide a better response to the increasingly complex matters and issues.

The lawyers have a wealth of experience in employment litigation, conscious of the dynamic of disputes that makes up a significant part of employment law matters and their applicability.

The legal advice which the labour law practice area renders to companies can be chiefly divided into the following categories:

• Preventive advice: the disclosure and pre-discussion of new legislation/relevant court decisions, or our experience leading us to highlight issues which the new legislation/court decisions may bring to the fore and that will have a major impact on companies;
• Concrete and practical solutions meeting companies’ currents concerns and aims and providing risky/determined action strategies when necessary in the face of a too-strict legal framework, in which the consequences of any possible legal dispute are gauged and assessed.

Clients of this practice area act in the following business segments:

• Banking and financial institutions;
• Energy;
• Capital markets and venture capital;
• Pharmacology, biotechnology and cosmetics;
• Real estate;
• Tourism and hotels;
• Automobiles;
• Sport;
• Telecommunications;
• Press and media.

The advice rendered is often complemented with recourse to lawyers of other PLMJ practice areas, namely in large-scale transactions, thus assuring clients a full service.

The labour law practice area is managed from PLMJ’s head office in Lisbon, where the majority of its lawyers are based, but services are rendered country-wide by specialised labour law lawyers in the Oporto and Algarve offices.