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The uncertainty of the future, which is expected to be of economic resumption, poses questions in the reasoning of fixed-term contracts given the reality existing at the time of the reopening of the economic activity of companies. In an opinion piece for Human Resources, Joana Enes, Senior Associate in the Labour Department at CCA, reflects on the need to question (and revise) the fixed-term contracts.
"Considering that we are faced with a reality never experienced before, which has forced companies to close or suspend their activities, are we not precisely facing a (re)start of an economic activity that corresponds to a commercial business risk which deserves legislative protection?", asks Joana Enes, adding that "as a measure to support companies in the resumption of their economic activity, it was important to provide for the legal possibility of these companies (...) to be able, in the resumption of their activities, to resort to fixed-term employment contracts, for a period of two years, for reasons of reduction of business risk, similar to that provided for in subparagraph a) of paragraph 4 of article 140, for its beginning".
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