acordo coletivo de trabalho
Published 8 November 2026, 22:53
acordo coletivo de trabalho (ACT) — collective agreement
An agreement between employers and unions on working conditions: pay scales, hours, allowances, holidays. It applies on top of the labour code and only to those it covers, primarily members of the unions that signed it. In the public health service there is a separate ACT for hospitals in EPE form, and a worker on an ordinary employment contract can move onto it if their institution applies the agreement.
Where you come across it. Pay and allowances at a hospital, a factory or in retail. A dispute over whether the agreement applies to you.
Not to be confused with a CCT (contrato coletivo de trabalho), which is essentially the same kind of agreement, only signed by an employers' association rather than by individual employers.