Ana Manuel Jerónimo Lopes Correia Mendes Godinho (born 29 June 1972) is a Portuguese legal expert, civil servant and politician. A member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), she was the Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security in the Portuguese Government until March 2024, having previously served as Secretary of State for Tourism. In the March 2024 national election she was elected to the Portuguese National Assembly as the sole representative of the PS in the Guarda constituency.[1]
Ana Mendes Godinho | |
|---|---|
 Godinho in 2018 | |
| Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security | |
| In office 26 October 2019 – 2 April 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | António Costa |
| Preceded by | José António Vieira da Silva |
| Succeeded by | Maria do Rosário Palma Ramalho |
| Secretary of State for Tourism | |
| In office 26 November 2015 – 26 October 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | António Costa |
| Preceded by | Adolfo Mesquita Nunes |
| Succeeded by | Rita Marques |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
| Constituency | Guarda |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 June 1972 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon |
Early life and career edit
Ana Manuel Jerónimo Lopes Correia Mendes Godinho was born in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon on 29 June 1972, to a family from Vila Nova de Foz Côa. She has a younger brother. She went to high school at Colégio Mira Rio in Lisbon, a private institution linked to Opus Dei. She graduated in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and followed post-graduate studies in Labour Law. After a legal internship, she became a legal consultant to the Portuguese Ministry of National Defence and, later, the Directorate-General for Tourism, between 1997 and 2001. She is a qualified Labour Inspector and from 2001 directed the department for the Support of Inspection Activity at the Portuguese Authority for Working Conditions (ACT). She was vice-president of the Portuguese National Tourism Authority (Turismo de Portugal), and a member of the Board of two tourism companies. She also coordinated the post-graduate degree on Tourism Law at the Lisbon University.[2][3][4][5]
Political career edit
Mendes Godinho was deputy and chief of staff to the Secretary of State for Tourism, Bernardo Trindade, in the first government led by Prime Minister José Sócrates from 2005. She represented Portugal on the Technical Committee on Tourism and Related Services of the International Organization for Standardization. In 2015, she became Secretary of State for Tourism in the first government of António Costa.
In 2019, Mendes Godinho became Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security in Costa's second government.[2][3][4][5] She was reappointed to that position following the 2022 Portuguese legislative election.[6] As minister, she introduced legislation to ban companies in Portugal from contacting employees outside working hours and to make them meet their extra energy and communications costs under what the Financial Times described as “one of Europe’s most employee-friendly laws for regulating homeworking.“[7]
Personal life edit
References edit
- ^ "Eleições Legislativas 2024. Deputados Eleitos". CNN. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Ana Mendes Godinho: Ministra do Trabalho, Solidariedade e Segurança Social". XXII Government of Portugal. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ a b c "Ana Mendes Godinho Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security". XXII Government of Portugal. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Ana Godinho, a ministra com o trabalho de substituir Vieira da Silva". Público. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Ana Mendes Godinho: a ministra que adora costurar". Jornal de Notícias. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ "Ana Mendes Godinho, o perfil da (repetente) ministra do Trabalho". SIC Noticias. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ Peter Wise (15 November 2021), Portuguese law bans employers from contacting staff out of hours Financial Times.
- ^ "Ministra Ana Mendes Godinho infectado com COVID-19". Diário de Notícias. Retrieved 9 April 2021.