Ricardo Rodrigues Lopes

Ricardo Rodrigues Lopes has a vast experience in the labour area giving day-to-day advice on all matters pertaining to labour issues as well as related litigation before the labour courts to many companies, including many multinational companies. Ricardo Rodrigues Lopes has developed expertise in those areas that are increasingly important to clients, such as employee benefits, flexibility of employment contracts, organisation of work time, wage structure, pensions and other models of retirement protection and benefits. Ricardo Rodrigues Lopes is also very active in respect of remote work, relocation of workers, multijurisdicitonal matters relating with working abroad and foreign workers, as well as digital nomads and specific aspects of IT workers.

In accordance with the gradually increasing flexibility of Portuguese labour law, Ricardo Rodrigues Lopes has been involved in some of the major restructuring processes of the Portuguese economy, including several collective dismissal procedures based on structural or technological grounds and lay-off procedures.