Dower Law Firm contributes to the 2026 edition of the Chambers Global Practice Guides

Dower Law Firm’s Employment Law team contributes to the 2026 edition of Chambers Global Practice Guides: Employment, providing an analysis of the key trends and developments shaping the Portuguese labour market, with a focus on pay transparency, international employment models and labour law reform.

Eduardo Castro Marques, Miguel Cunha Machado, Filipa Ribeiro Gonçalves and Noémia de Sousa, lawyers at Dower Law Firm, are the authors of the chapter Portugal: Trends and Developments, featured in this international publication by Chambers and Partners.

Chambers and Partners is a leading international organisation in the legal sector, renowned for its directories and rankings of lawyers and law firms. In addition to these activities, it publishes the Chambers Global Practice Guides, a collection of international legal guides featuring contributions from legal professionals on key legislative frameworks, regulatory trends and legal developments across different jurisdictions.

These publications serve as a valuable reference resource for businesses, investors, in-house legal teams and other professionals seeking to understand the legal frameworks applicable in different markets and anticipate the challenges associated with their operations.

Entitled “Portugal’s Employment Market in Transition: Transparent Pay, Borderless Work and the Reform That Really Matters”, the analysis prepared by Dower’s team examines three key issues shaping the future of employment relations in Portugal: pay transparency, the growing adoption of the Employer of Record (EOR) model, and the need for labour law reform that keeps pace with economic, technological and organisational change.

These three perspectives converge on a common challenge: adapting Portugal’s legal framework to an increasingly international and technology-driven labour market, characterised by growing demands for transparency and accountability.