Ninth amendment to the Employment Code

Law no. 120/2015 has been published in the Portuguese official gazette Diário da República (Series I, no. 170) of 1 September. The aim of this new law, as stated in its article 1, is to increase maternity and paternity rights, which it does by making amendments to a number of rules in the Employment Code on this matter. In line with this, the new law also makes changes to the welfare system for parents.