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Rui Valente

Rui
Valente

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[email protected]
Oporto
Lisbon
Experience: 

Rui Valente is responsible for Labour Law area in Portugal. Prior to this he has carried out his activity between 1996 and 2006 at Gonçalves Pereira, Castelo Branco & Associados (now Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira).

He is member of the Portuguese Bar Association (“Ordem dos Advogados”) since 1996. The “Ordem dos Advogados” has granted him the title of “Labour Law Expert” in 2007.

Among other, his main areas of practice are: restructuring, labor individual and collective negotiation, disciplinary proceedings, labor general advise. Furthermore, Litigation is a very significant part of his activity, namely in labor and civil areas.

Rui Valente features in directories such as Chambers & Partners, which includes him in its list of Labor Lawyers. He is a regular speaker in several fórums.

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

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.

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).

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)


Practice Area/Industry

Labor and Employment Law

Languages Known

Portuguese
Spanish
French
English

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