CPCS
Published 4 November 2026, 03:07
CPCS — Comissão Permanente de Concertação Social (Standing Committee for Social Concertation)
The negotiating table where the government, trade union confederations and employers' confederations sit. This is where they agree in advance how much the minimum wage will rise, and where changes to the Labour Code are discussed. The committee works within the Economic and Social Council (CES).
Where you come across it. News about the minimum wage, the Labour Code and the government's talks with the unions.
An agreement reached here does not become law by itself: it is then turned into a decree-law or a law, and nothing applies until it is published in the Diário da República.
Official website: ces.pt/concertacao-social