ACT clarifies rules of absence from work because of Charles depression

Aabsenteeism due to depression Charles have been generating some doubts, but the Working Conditions Authority (ACT) came clarify in which situations faults can be justified, without loss of retribution. 

“ Extreme or adverse weather conditions may prevent the movement to work, as well as the closure of educational establishments may pose challenges to the reconciliation of working life and parental responsibilities. But in what situations can faults be justified, without loss of retribution?”, asks ACT, in a shared publication on social networks, where it explains the applicable conditions: 

Has your kids' school been closed? 

“ The closure of educational establishments may justify the absence of work without loss of remuneration: when there is no other way to ensure parental responsibilities”, explains ACT.

Couldn't get to work?

ACT also explains that “in the context of extreme or adverse weather conditions, absences from work can be justified, without loss of retribution, when: there is an effective impossibility of moving to the workplace; and there is an effective impossibility of providing work (in particular because it is not possible to use telework)“. 

What should you do?

The ACT explains that workers must follow these two steps: 

1. Report absence: Inform the employer as soon as possible; 
2. Present proofIf requested: If the employer so requests, he shall provide proof of the grounds invoked within 15 days of the communication. 

The Minister of Internal Affairs, remember, left on Wednesday a word of thanks to all civil protection agents on the ground and, asked about companies that withdrew yesterday to workers' holidays, answered there are “legal mechanisms” to regulate these situations.

“ We are talking about moments of great exception and of great exception when there is trial, when there are difficulties, when there is hardness there must be cohesion here, a solidarity of all. It is this appeal that I make here on behalf of the Government of course to everyone”he did.

After the meeting of the Council of Ministers, he will be meeting in São Bento Centro de Operações do Governo (CorGov), a kind of crisis office, coordinated by Luís Montenegro, which includes eight governors: the Ministers of Internal Administration, Presidency, Infrastructure, Environment and Energy, Agriculture and Sea, Health and Territorial Cohesion (for liaison with local authorities), as well as the National Defense.

The depression Charles, which motivated the activation of the alert situation throughout the territory of mainland Portugal from 00:00 to 23:59 today, lost power during the morning and divided into two cores of low pressure, one towards Lisbon and the other towards the Algarve.

The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority recorded more than 1,600 occurrences related to bad weather on the continent, especially floods, falls of trees and collapses, while in Madeira, the first region to suffer the effects of the storm, there were more than 300.