The union announced that an agreement was signed after several months of negotiations, resulting in the successful conclusion of the revision of the Collective Agreement of Public Employers (ACEP) with Lisbon City Council (CML).
The proposals defended by the STML and accepted by the municipality highlighted the institutionalization of the payment of insalubrity and hardship supplements, night supplements, and shift allowances over 12 months.
The agreement also extends to all workers the entitlement to compensatory rest for work done on holidays and covers costs related to mandatory certifications and professional activity titles, such as renewing a heavy vehicle driver’s license, the Driver’s Aptitude Certificate (CAM), or professional orders’ fees.
According to the union, the agreement reduces the trial period for senior technical careers (180 days) and for technical assistants (120 days), allows time off for attending the funeral of a family member—uncle or nephew—without loss of pay, and grants a 24-hour leave before emergency services for firefighter trainees attending training sessions.
Under the new collective work agreement, the annual allocation of three vacation days via performance evaluation (SIADAP) will be based on the latest known performance proposal, with its allocation depending proportionally on unjustified absences from the previous year. One absence results in the loss of one vacation day, two absences result in the loss of two vacation days, and three absences lead to the loss of all three vacation days.
Workers will also have the right to a day off on Carnival and their birthday.
The Lisbon Municipal Workers’ Union stated that the City Council rejected the provision of the Metropolitan Pass to all workers, citing its high financial cost, despite the STML noting that these costs represent only 0.3% of the executive’s approved budget for this year.
Conversely, Lisbon City Council proposed from January 2026, free access for all municipality workers to the Carris public passenger transport network, supervised by the municipality, and the GIRA shared bicycle network.
“We value the Agreement now reached which, although not containing all the measures demanded by workers, guarantees important rights, many already practiced but now institutionalized within ACEP, ensuring their defense in the immediate future, regardless of the desires of future executives and mayors,” explained the union, highlighting the workers’ four-year struggle.
