PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ COMMITTEES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Public employees have the right to form public employees’ committees in each body or service to defend their interests and to exercise the rights provided for in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and in the General Labour Law in Public Functions (LTFP)

In the bodies or services with peripheral establishments or de-concentrated organic units the respective public employees may form public employees’ sub-committees

Public employees’ committees acquire legal personality through the registration of their statutes in the ministry responsible for public administration area; this competence is assigned by delegation to the Directorate General for Administration and Public Employment (DGAEP)

» Rights and Duties (Public employees’ committees)

Public employees’ committees have the following rights:

a) Receive all information necessary to the fulfillment of their activity

b) Exercise management control in the respective bodies or services

c) Participate in procedures relating to public employees within the framework of reorganization processes of bodies or services

d) Participate directly or through their steering commissions in the drawing up of labour legislation

Public employees´ sub-committees may exercise the competences delegated to them by public employees’ committees in accordance with applicable law

Public employees’ committees are entrusted with:

a) Exercising the rights that the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and the General Labour Law in Public Functions (LTFP) so provide for

b) Complying with the statutes

c) Convening public employees’ general meetings

Public employees committees and public employees’ sub-committees shall not through the exercise of their rights and fulfillment of their functions, affect the regular functioning of the body or service