In one of the bills, Livre's bench intends to establish the maximum limit of normal working hours to seven hours per day and 35 hours per week, “without loss of pay, which in fact reflects harmonisation with the work regime in public functions”.

In the view of the party led by Rui Tavares and Isabel Mendes Lopes, “reducing working hours is to ensure that everyone can live better, participate more in society and take care of their health and that of their families”.

Livre assumes that, in the long term, the ideal would be “a more comprehensive structural reform, aiming for 30 hours of work per week and 30 days of annual vacation”.

In the second project, the parliamentary group proposes the inclusion in the CLT of a minimum vacation period, extending it from the current 22 to 25 working days.

The aim is to reduce working hours and “improve the balance between work and family life, with effects on the health and well-being of workers, by allowing more rest time and more time available for other activities associated with human fulfilment”.

In a series of initiatives dedicated to work, Livre also submitted a draft resolution – which does not have the force of law, assuming itself as a recommendation to the Government – ​​dedicated to the four-day working week, an experiment that the party wants to be applied to the public sector as well as the private sector.