COVID-19 Updates (the Past and the New Future)
New Legislation Enacted
Authors: David Carvalho Martins, Partner and Head of Employment, and Tiago Sequeira Mousinho – DCM | Littler
The major concern has been focused on COVID-19 – which is why it has claimed the top spot. It is “safe” to say that the workplace is not immune to the virus. Therefore, some measures have been applied, since October, to this day and are still in force, in order to protect public health, including employees and other third (contracting) parties or partners. Some examples of “never-ending updates” may be provided in the workplace, such as (i) the mandatory usage of masks in public places, (ii) the adoption of a specific COVID-19 plan (preventive and repressive internal methods for contamination/infection outbursts, namely social distancing), and (iii) obligation to create de-phased schedules of work time and to reorganize work and minimize transmission risks.
From our perspective, the best prevention and repression of the virus is the almost-daily monitoring of the various enforcement and temporary measures that seem to have become part of our daily lives.
New Legislation Enacted
Authors: David Carvalho Martins, Partner and Head of Employment, and Tiago Sequeira Mousinho – DCM | Littler
Newly enacted Law No. 83/2021, which becomes effective on January 1, 2022, provides for a new and broader concept of “teleworker” (e.g., remote workers). Among other things,...
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