The PCP today demanded that workers who did not come to work due to the passage of depression Charles have justified faults and receive full pay, also asking for quick support for the affected.
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11/11/2026
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O PCP today demanded that workers who did not come to work due to the passage of depression Charles have the justified faults and receive the full salary and asked for a “fast check of losses” and the availability of support.
In a note sent to the press, the Communist parliamentary group points out that, due to the prevention measures announced, “many workers have not gone to work for reasons that are not their responsibility”, considering that “a day’s salary is inmissable or coerced into taking a vacation day”.
“ Forced interpretations of the law to cut rights are not acceptable. What is required is that all workers are entitled to justified absence and full payment of today's day ", defends the party.
The CFP also requires “the rapid clearance of losses” in public equipment, infrastructure, businesses, farms, housing and private goods, arguing that government support should be made available to “replace normality quickly”.
“ It cannot be repeated what happened with the impacts of storm succession at the beginning of the year, with systematic delays in the allocation of support to the affected, which still today, 10 months later, some people have not received them ", underlines the party.
The CFP considers that “it is important for the government to immediately guarantee the repair of damaged infrastructure from its responsibility, both support for local authorities, small traders, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and citizens affected by atmospheric depression Charles”.
The parliamentary group says that “these are issues that the CFP will follow and will be present in our intervention and initiative”.
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 to the Algarve, the only region to maintain, in the middle of the afternoon, red weather warnings, due to rain and wind, however disabled.
The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority registered up to 12:00 more than 500 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 200.
More than a dozen people had to be relocated due to damage to their homes, but there is no record of victims.
In addition to closing schools and non-essential public services, bad weather motivated the cancellation of a few hundred flights and the cutting of roads.