5th Labor Law Conference: "Agenda for Decent Work: Challenges and Opportunities".

September 28th and 29th, Ponta Delgada

CoLABOR has just published the study “Impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes”. This study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential structures for elderly people (ERPI), based on the analysis of sociodemographic, territorial and organizational factors.

The "Policies in Analysis" issue no. 10, "The prohibition of outsourcing services in the 2023 labor reform," is part of a series of legal analysis texts that CoLABOR has been producing within the framework of the Decent Work Agenda, with a view to contributing to the discussion and debate on public policies in the labor field.

CoLABOR is associated with the Population Sciences doctoral program, being one of the host institutions within the framework of the support model recently created by the Foundation for Science and Technology for applications in a non-academic environment.

This study, commissioned by the Government of Portugal, was led and coordinated by David Mosler (EUROPE) and carried out by a multidisciplinary research team consisting of technicians from the ILO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (EUROPE), the ILO Employment Policy Department (EMPLOYMENT) and researchers from CoLABOR.

CoLABOR promotes reflection and debate around the Decent Work Agenda, one of the most relevant political moments of this decade regarding the world of work.

A group of researchers from CoLABOR participated in the public consultation on the preliminary version of the national strategy to combat poverty, which ended last Monday. This group produced and submitted a document with a set of suggestions to the ConsultaLEX portal, intended as a constructive contribution to improving the strategy.

CoLABOR developed, in partnership with the Institute for Public and Social Policies (IPPS), the data platform "State of the Nation in Numbers," which complements the report that the institute publishes annually and presents a detailed analysis of the national situation in different dimensions.

The nationwide study “Work, telework and social distancing”, promoted by CoLABOR, was one of the international examples, along with British and Dutch experiences, presented in the panel on telework at the event “Policies to reduce the gender employment gap in the Hungarian labor market”.

Tiago Santos Pereira, Coordinating Researcher for the Work, Employment and Technology line of research at CoLABOR, participated last Tuesday in the RTP program "É OU NÃO É" (Is it or isn't it?), whose theme was "What will the future of work be like?".

CoLABOR is conducting a study on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Nursing Homes," through the application of an online questionnaire survey to all Residential Structures for Elderly People (ERPI) and Long-Term Care and Maintenance Units (ULDM) of the National Network of Integrated Continuing Care (RNCCI) in mainland Portugal.

CoLABOR has created a simulator for the new social benefit – “Extraordinary support for workers' income” – which allows users to calculate the individual value of this benefit, as well as its duration, based on the information they provide.

DataLABOR provides national and international data on work, employment, and social protection. It originates from a collaborative laboratory, CoLABOR, which brings together higher education institutions, three of the largest national employers, and the social sector. It will contribute to the formulation of public policies, such as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and, at the same time, provide companies, trade unions, business organizations, and third-sector organizations with the information necessary for management, decision-making, and strategy formulation.