Immigrants are among the groups particularly affected by rising unemployment and deteriorating working conditions in Portugal. A recent study has looked at how three main groups of immigrants, from Brazil, Cape Verde and Ukraine, access the country's labour market. It also analyses their specific
Cabin crew from Portugal’s state-owned airline TAP have voted overwhelmingly to break away from their umbrella trade union confederation, the UGT, after a row over the airline’s privatisation.
Official unemployment figures as calculated by Statistics Portugal are considerably lower than those calculated by the Employment and Vocational Training Institute as a result of different approaches to who is counted as unemployed.