ABSTRACT
The Portuguese Labour Code, approved by Law No. 7/2009, February 2012, repealed Law No. 99/2003. It includes provisions on harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and equal working conditions at the workplace, with sections on general provisions on equality and non-discrimination, prohibition of harassment, and equality and non-discrimination based on sex. The code states that the employer and worker have the right to physical and moral integrity. The code requires equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and equal working conditions for male and female workers. In April 2016, Portugal's Supreme Court of Justice ruled that an employer had demonstrated a breach of its duty to provide its employee with sufficient work, which had left him completely inactive for a number of years. The court found that the employer's actions had caused the employee humiliation, embarrassment, and isolation in the eyes of his colleagues and created a difficult and disturbing work environment for him.
