Decree-Law 2,162 instituted a statutory minimum wage and set regional schedules. A wage floor recognized workers as people with claims on employers, but protections depended on which sectors and workers were covered and enforced. The law’s regional structure also produced different nominal wage levels. This milestone belongs in a post-abolition account without implying that wage labor was equivalent to slavery.
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What did Decree-Law 2,162 institute?
The 1940 minimum-wage decree included regional schedules.
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The decree established wage values through a table with regional differences.