Maria Luís Guedes de Carvalho, Senior Labour Associate at CCA Law Firm, in an article for RH Magazine, answers the question "What changes in the trial period?", related to the Decent Work Agenda.
"If until now the suppletive rule was the existence of a trial period, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the parties, the Decent Work Agenda has completely reversed this premise, with the rule now being the exclusion of the trial period."