David Carvalho Martins

David Carvalho Martins is the Founding Partner and Director of Littler Portugal, with over 20 years of experience in employment law. He advises national and multinational companies on the day-to-day management of people and talent, and represents clients in litigation across a wide range of sectors and industries, including culture, tourism, retail, information technology, healthcare, fisheries, agriculture, and public administration.

He has extensive experience in collective bargaining and working time arrangements, including flexible working schemes and remote work policies, as well as in addressing workplace and data protection issues.

He also provides legal counsel to companies operating in Portuguese-speaking countries.

He is a Lecturer at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon.

He is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Murcia. He is also a Partner in the São Paulo, Brazil office.

Credentials & Recognition

Additional Thought Leadership

Sexual Harassment and Mobbing: Recent Amendments in Portuguese Law

  • 2019
  • European Labour Law Journal, vol. 10(2)
  • Teresa Coelho Moreira

Transfer of an Economic Unit in Portugal: New Regulation

  • 2018
  • European Labour Law Journal, Vol. 9

Transfer of an Economic Unit: Requirements, Effects and Recent CJEU Ruling

  • 2018
  • European Labour Law Journal, I

Whistleblowing and the ECHR Case Heinisch v. Germany: Polish and Portuguese Perspectives

  • 2017
  • Maciej Łaga

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