Angola – New General Labour Law

In brief

It was published the Law 12/23, of 27 December, which approved the General Labour Law, revoking the former Law 7/15 of 15 June. Among the changes introduced, we highlight the following:

• fixed-term employment contracts are only allowed in very exceptional situations provided for and typified by law, thus the employment contract for an indefinite period has become the rule;
• new disciplinary measures were introduced, namely (i) temporary category demotion, and (ii) suspension of work with loss of remuneration;
• elimination of the categorization of companies as micro, medium, small and large companies for the purposes of calculating compensation and indemnities;
• flexible working hours were introduced for employees with family responsibilities;
• complementary maternity leave was introduced (granted for a period of four weeks and non-remunerated);
• paternity leave was introduced (granted for seven business days, consecutive or interpolated, non-remunerated);
• a new chapter on personality rights was also introduced.

This law will come into force 90 days after the date of its publication.

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