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In an article cited by Expresso, Pedro Antunes, Partner in the Labour practice at CCA Law Firm, analyses the Government’s proposal to impose a 30‑day deadline for the Authority for Working Conditions (ACT) to issue an opinion on requests for reclassification involving salary reductions, after which authorisation would be deemed to have been tacitly granted.
The lawyer warns that “the purpose of involving the ACT in this process is precisely to ensure that the worker is not being coerced into accepting a situation that is detrimental to them”. However, he notes that currently “the ACT takes between five and six months to issue an opinion”, which could turn the new rule into an open pathway for automatic salary reductions.
Pedro Antunes supports the importance of setting deadlines, but stresses that “there must be an improvement in the functioning of the ACT to make compliance with the 30‑day deadline possible”.
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