The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, unveiled a diploma that extends unemployment benefits to victims of domestic violence and provides an incentive for long-term unemployed people to return to work.
The announcement of the award ceremony was published this Wednesday on the website of the President of the Republic.
The decree-law was envisaged more than a year ago as part of the 2022 state budget at the proposal of Livre and approved by the Council of Ministers on October 19.
“This decree-law extends the legal regime of social protection in case of unemployment to workers who have the status of victims of domestic violence,” stated a government statement published following a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
An official source at the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security then told Lusa that “people with the status of victims of domestic violence, if they terminate their employment contract, are equated to situations of involuntary unemployment, having access to unemployment benefits, even if the termination of the contract occurs on your initiative “
Unemployment benefits are assigned “depending on the work activity of a person who has the status of a victim of domestic violence,” the department added.
“The status of a victim of domestic violence is granted in accordance with Article 14 of Law No. 112/2009 of 16 September, which establishes the legal regime applicable to the prevention of domestic violence, the protection and assistance of its victims.”
The now promulgated decree-law also provides for “an exceptional measure to encourage the return to work of the long-term unemployed.”
This measure was provided for in the framework of the Decent Work Program and the income agreement signed as part of the Social Agreement with certain social partners.
“The diploma establishes a new mechanism that allows the amount of unemployment benefits to be partially combined with income from work, facilitating the employment of long-term unemployed people and their reintegration into the labor market,” the Council said in a statement. Ministers October 19.
“This regime, which is experimental, will be applied in 2024 and 2025, and the assessment will be carried out in 2026,” he said.
Recipients of the measure are unemployed people who have received unemployment benefits for more than 12 months.
Author: Lusa
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