Nowadays, given the increasingly greater financial difficulties of individuals and companies alike, the issue of guarantees as security for obligations is gaining particular significance, especially when ever-more impatient creditors are keen to recover amounts owed to them more quickly and as easily as possible. The importance that guarantees as security for obligations have in a…

The 2012 Stimulus Programme established by Ministerial Order 45/2012, of 13 February, sought to incentivise the hiring and training of unemployed persons of certain characteristics, through the grant of financial support to the employers, if they entered into employment contracts with unemployed persons enrolled at an employment centre for at least six consecutive months, on…