MPs unanimously approved this Wednesday in a Decent Work Agenda vote on a PS proposal that extends the right to telework to parents with children with disabilities or chronic illnesses, regardless of age.
The proposal of the socialists was approved, in particular, in the working group on labor changes within the framework of the Decent Work Agenda, which is due to complete its work this Wednesday after a marathon of meetings since November.
“An employee with a child under the age of three or, regardless of age, with a child with a disability or a chronic disease, living with him in the same room with a table and a room, has the right to carry out activities in conditions of remote work. mode, when it is compatible with the activity performed and the employer has the resources and means for this,” the PS proposal provides.
However, the PS rejected the proposal of the PSD, which intended to include in this article the right to work remotely for people with children with cancer, thus defeating the initiative of the Social Democrats, which deserved the approval of other parties.
“We could not understand and regret that the PS did not accept our offer,” said PSD MP Clara Marques Mendez.
BE deputies José Soeiro and PCP Alfredo Maia also deplored the “leadership” of the PSD proposal to include cancer patients in the right to work remotely, despite citing the “progress” made with the PS proposal.
Labor law changes are put to a final global vote on Friday and are expected to come into effect in April.
In 2021, when the remote work regime was changed, it now applies, except for parents with children under three years old, to parents with children under eight years old, without the need for coordination with the employer, subject to its implementation. by both parents “in successive periods of equal length over a maximum reporting period of 12 months”.
Teleworking was also extended at that time to include single-parent families or situations in which only one parent appears to qualify for teleworking.”
However, this expansion, made in 2021, excludes workers in micro-enterprises, i.e. companies with fewer than ten employees.
Workers with non-primary informal caregiver status have also been granted the right to perform remote work functions for a maximum of four consecutive years or intermittently.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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