Bosch changes schedules at Braga factory and ensures maintaining wages

A Bosch is restructuring working hours at the Braga factory, articulating a “better reconciliation” between the workers’ professional and personal life with the “necessities of the activity”, but without impact on wages, announced today the company.

“The employees’ salaries remain unchanged,” Bosch Portugal guarantees in a statement, explaining that “the remuneration associated with night work will continue to depend on the hours actually performed in that period, according to the applicable time.”.

The statement follows today’s news from the Jornal de Negócios, according to which the German group “will end the continuous working shifts in this unit”, which “will result in an average monthly wage loss of around 250 to 300 euros” for the workers affected.

Confirming that it is “adjusting the distribution of working hours”, Bosch Portugal points out that the objective is to “provide greater stability and predictability to employees and contribute to a better reconciliation between professional and personal life while ensuring the needs of the activity”.

According to the company, “the times considered already exist in the company, varying among themselves the number of hours of night work”, and, “whenever possible, employees can express their preference for hours, reconciling their individual context with the needs of the activity”.

“ At a time when it envisages a growth in the sales volume of two digits already in 2026, Bosch in Braga is constantly reviewing the procedures in place to respond as best as possible to employees’ expectations and make the factory even more competitive,” he said, adding that the employees covered “are being informed about the next steps”.

According to Jornal de Negócios, the decision to put an end to the continuous work shifts in Braga – where these shifts “have existed since the start of the company” – should affect “about 500 of the 3500 factory workers” and enter into force on January 1, 2027.

According to the newspaper, the union structures representing the workers of the Brazilian unit will meet this afternoon, “on the table to propose to the workers the launch of a strike notice”.

In addition to Braga, Bosch Portugal has operations in Aveiro, Ovar and Lisbon.