ACT takes action to check the legalization of 17,701 fake green slips

The Labor Conditions Authority will begin checking next week into the situation of 17,701 workers with fake green slips whose employment is expected to be regularized by this Friday, a Labor Department source said.

Earlier this month, following measures taken to combat instability, the Authority for Labor Conditions (ACT) announced that it had notified 9,699 companies that it would need to regulate the employment of 17,701 independent workers considered economically dependent, that is, service providers who concentrate 80 % or more of your income in one business.

The deadline for notified companies to voluntarily resolve these situations expires this Friday, avoiding a very serious offense for which fines can range from 2,040 to 61,200 per worker.

In response to Lusa, an official source at the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security said that early next week a connection between the systems would be carried out “to check the situations that have been resolved and those that have not been resolved.” , and the latter “will be subject to verification.”

An official source from ACT has already told Lusa that after identifying unresolved situations, “if the employer does not resolve the relationship within 10 days, ACT reports this to the prosecutor’s office, encouraging the latter to take action to recognize the existence of an employment contract with the Labor Court.”

“The labor court must rule on the existence of a contract and set a date for the commencement of the employment relationship,” he added.

In addition, he clarified, the dismissal of independent workers by a contractor (by terminating the provision of services, for example, in order to avoid concluding an employment contract with them) “does not condition either an inspection by AST, or promotion by the prosecutor’s office to recognize the existence of an employment contract in the Labor Court.”