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Rui Valente Partner
rui.valente@garrigues.com
  • Oporto
    +351 226 158 860
  • Lisbon
    +351 213 821 200

Rui Valente is responsible for Labor & Employment Law area in Garrigues Portugal. 

Among other, his main areas of practice are: restructuring, labor individual and collective negotiation, disciplinary proceedings, labor and social security general advise.

Furthermore, Litigation is a very significant part of his activity, namely in labor and civil areas.

Law degree at the Universidad Católica Portuguesa. The “Ordem dos Advogados” (Portuguese Bar) has granted him the title of “Labour Law Expert” in 2007.

Experience

Joined Garrigues in 2006.

Prior to this he has carried out his activity between 1996 and 2006 at Gonçalves Pereira, Castelo Branco & Associados (now Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira).

His profesional experience as a labour & employment lawyer includes assistance in areas such as the following:

  • Collective Barganing Agreements;
  • Labor & Employment litigation;
  • Disciplinary proceedings;
  • Regular assistance and legal consultancy in labor and social security matters;
  • Reestructuring and collective dismissals;
  • Pensions schemes;
  • Labor and Social Security Due Diligences.

Academic background

Law degree at the Universidad Católica Portuguesa (Oporto) in 1995.

Two Post-Degrees at the Universidad Católica Portuguesa in European Labor Law (2001/2002) and Labor Law (2004/2005).

Teaching activity

Invited lecturer in the Labour and Social Security Post-graduation Course at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Oporto).

Invited lecturer in the Tax Post-graduation Course at the ISAG – Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão.

Memberships

He is member of the Portuguese Bar Association (“Ordem dos Advogados”) since 1996.

Member of CIELO – Comunidade para la Investigación y el Estudio Laboral y Ocupacional.

Distinctions

Rui Valente features in directories such as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.

He is a regular speaker in several fórums and frequently publishes articles in Portuguese media.

Publications

Coauthor / author of several booksand papers in collective publications :

"Jusprático Laboral e Segurança Social" (2007)

"Direito do Trabalho e prestações de desemprego: A Segurança Social como outorgante fantasma na transação laboral" (2011, Prontuário de Direito do Trabalho n.º 86)

"O Direito da Segurança Social como face oculta do Direito do Trabalho" (2011, Direito do Trabalho + Crise = Crise do Direito do Trabalho – Atas do Congresso de Direito do Trabalho na Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

"Código Contributivo Anotado" (2012, with Joana Tavares Oliveira)

"Proteção do segredo, cláusula penal e desvinculação do pacto de não concorrência: entre a causa perdida, o combate quixotesco e o direito ao mal menor" (2017, Peter Lang, Los actuales câmbios sociales y laborales: nuevos retos para el mundo del trabajo; Vol.4)

“Um Direito do Trabalho para os mais velhos / An employment Law for the elderly” (2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers)

“Reforço da qualificação e capacidade técnica e desemprego; âmbito de aplicação e a transição entre o substituído e o substituto” (Segurança Social – Sistema, Proteção, Solidariedade e Sustentabilidade - 2020, AAFDL Editora)

“Um futuro laboral colaborativo com as pessoas com incapacidade/A collaborative labour effort put forth to employees with disabilities” (2022, com Luísa Rebelo Cima, Papers of the International Seminar “Labour 2030”).

"Código dos Regimes Contributivos do Sistema Previdencial de Segurança Social - Anotado e Comentado" (Coordenação Ana Celeste Carvalho, Filipe Cassiano dos Santos, Jorge Campino, Licínio Lopes Martins, Matilde Lavouras, Miguel Coelho, Miguel Lucas Pires, Nuno Monteiro amaro e Suzana Fernandes da Costa, Almedina, Junho de 2022).

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