{"id":357411,"date":"2025-08-22T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ga-p.com\/?post_type=noticia&p=357411"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:36:54","slug":"madalena-caldeira-warns-that-the-presumption-of-employment-may-also-apply-to-intermediaries-eco","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/ga-p.com\/en\/news\/madalena-caldeira-warns-that-the-presumption-of-employment-may-also-apply-to-intermediaries-eco\/","title":{"rendered":"Madalena Caldeira warns that the presumption of employment may also apply to intermediaries | ECO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Government wants to simplify the recognition of employment contracts between couriers and intermediaries. The labour reform removes the explicit distinction between digital platforms and intermediaries, grouping them under the notion of \u201cbeneficiary of the activity.\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Executive\u2019s proposal includes, among its more than 100 amendments to the Labour Code, the repeal of the rules that required first severing the courier\u2019s link with the platform before analysing the relationship with the intermediary. In this new framework, \u201cthere has been a change in the terminology used: instead of expressly distinguishing between a digital platform and an intermediary, the law now generically refers to the \u2018beneficiary of the activity\u2019,\u201d explains Madalena Caldeira, partner in charge of the Labour Law department at G\u00f3mez-Acebo & Pombo\u2019s Lisbon office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caldeira adds that \u201cthe presumption of employment therefore no longer operates automatically in relation to the digital platform and may also apply to the intermediary, provided that they are established as the effective beneficiary of the activity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this change, the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office will be able to bring employment recognition actions directly against intermediaries, which, according to experts, will make it easier to identify the true subordinate relationship in a sector characterised by subcontracting and intermediation in courier activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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