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Margarida Rosenbusch
Managing Associate

Lawyer

Margarida Rosenbusch

Languages
  • Portuguese
  • English
  • German
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Margarida Rosenbusch is a Managing Associate in the Employment, Labour & Pensions team.

With over 20 years of experience, she predominantly operates in the fields of Labour Law and Social Security, providing day-to-day legal advice to both domestic and international clients across various sectors, notably manufacturing, telecommunications, transport/logistics and on-demand delivery, retail, aviation, and banking and financial services.

She leads the employment litigation team, offering legal assistance in a range of judicial proceedings, including dismissal challenges, claims for wages, presumption of employment contracts in the context of digital platforms, occupational accident claims, and other employment, regulatory and social security litigation.

Margarida has also extensive experience in labour-law advisory work for corporate transactions involving transfers of employees under establishment-transfer rule (TUPE) operations, staff restructuring, and redundancy programmes.

Margarida is recommended for Employment by Legal 500, 2025. She is also recognised for Labour and Employment Law by Best Lawyers for the past years.

Joined CMS Portugal in 2012.

Awards & Recognitions
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  • Quote
    Margarida Rosenbusch can understand our needs very clearly and always responds in a timely manner. She is clear and leaves no doubts in her answers.
    Legal 500 (2024)
  • Quote
    Margarida Rosenbusch is very insightful, has a very comprehensive knowledge of labour laws and above all is a person with great people skills.
    Legal 500 (2023)

Publications

  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - "Reforma da legislação laboral: desafios para 2026" , in Human Resources Portugal, 2025
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - "Plataformas Digitais” – O que esperar (ainda) do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça?", in Diário de Notícias, 2025
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - “Onde ganhas o pão, não comas a carne” – Um conselho ao trabalhador”, in Human Resources Portugal, 2025
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - “Ano Novo: Resoluções de um trabalhador”, in Human Resources Portugal, 2024
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - “Plataformas digitais – legislação do trabalho feita por pessoas extraordinárias”, in ECO|Advocatus, 2024
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - “Teletrabalho, as outras cores da sustentabilidade”, in Jornal Económico, 2023
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - “Quiet Quitting, como a crónica de um namoro que fracassou” – Um conselho ao trabalhador”, in Human Resources Portugal, 2023
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - “Agenda do Trabalho Digno: Chocolate que não adoça a boca”, in ECO|Advocatus, 2023
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - “Salário Emocional”, in Público, 2023
  • ROSENBUSCH, Margarida - “Aos “mais novos”, que não querem “emprego para a vida”, mas também aos “mais experientes”, que não os conseguem reter”, in Human Resources Portugal, 2022

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 2004

Education

  • Law degree, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
  • Postgraduate degree in Labor and Social Security Law, Instituto de Direito do Trabalho, Universidade de Lisboa
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