Agricultural companies and the construction sector will now have to make the daily registration of workers, under a decree law dated this Thursday, the 29th, which created "an exceptional and temporary regime" of mandatory monitoring.
With the aim of "strengthening the control of compliance with the rules on safety and health at work", the Government considered it necessary to tighten the rules to minimize the risk of contagion in the workplace, according to the summary of the decree law, which was published yesterday in the Diário da República.
This led to the creation of this regime, which envisages the “organization of a daily register of all workers who work on agricultural holdings or in temporary or mobile construction sites with 10 or more workers”.
"In fact, considering the greater risk of incidence of cases of Covid -19, as well as the high mobility of workers in those sectors of activity, it is justified to reinforce special measures and rules to reduce the risk of contagion of this disease", reads up in the document.
This measure is due to the high number of cases related to civil construction companies, namely in Portimão, or in agricultural holdings, more precisely in Odemira and Aljezur.
Portimao and Odemira, who had already regressed into deconfinement 15 days ago, yesterday they saw the prime minister announce that they would not move forward with the rest of the country, where the measures will be eased as of tomorrow.
In the case of the Algarve county, the high incidence that motivated this stepping stone was largely linked to to cases in construction sites.
Already in Odemira, are concerned outbreaks among migrant farm workers that, for the most part, live in poor conditions.
Aljezur, who learned yesterday that he was going to regress into deconfinement, is also being affected by cases registered in farms in neighboring Odemira.
The complete ordinance can be downloaded here.
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