Home » Legal developments » National legislation » Portugal: business support programme seeks to promote economic recovery after Covid-19 Portugal: business support programme seeks to promote economic recovery after Covid-19 At the end of July, the Portuguese government adopted an economic activity support scheme aimed at encouraging companies to gradually resume their activity or production after having benefited from the special short-time working scheme introduced in response to Covid-19. The idea is also to enable workers to gradually return to the wage levels they enjoyed before the pandemic. The new mechanism is in force until December 2020. Through . Published on 24 August 2020 à 12h12 - Update on 24 August 2020 à 16h29 Resources New short-time working schemes. The simplified short-time working regime set up in response to the impact of the health emergency (see article n°11721) has been replaced as of 1 August by a new scheme offering differentiated support, depending on the level of decline in company turnover.… Managing the fallout of Covid-19 Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst name Last name Organization Function email* Object of the message Your messagePhoneThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications Supporting parenthood in the workplace: a win-win strategy Supporting employee carers: a CSR challenge Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels