The PS changed the vote today and made possible a PSD proposal, within the Decent Work Agenda, which extends the right to telework to parents with children with oncological disease, regardless of age.
“This proposal had been rejected, but the PS today reversed its decision to make it unfeasible and followed our proposal”, the vice-president of the PSD parliamentary group, Clara Marques Mendes, told Lusa.
The Social Democrats' proposal was unanimously approved by the Commission on Labour, Social Security and Inclusion, where the votes taken between November and the beginning of this month, within the framework of the working group on labor changes in the Decent Work Agenda, were ratified today.
In previous meetings, deputies had already approved a PS proposal that extends the right to telework to parents with children with disabilities or chronic illness.
Today, the PS made the PSD's proposal feasible, which now also includes parents with children with oncological disease in the right to telework.
“The worker with a child of up to three years old or, regardless of age, with a child with a disability or chronic illness or oncological disease who lives with him/her in shared table and room, is entitled to carry out the activity in a teleworking regime, when this is compatible with the activity performed and the employer has the resources and means for this purpose”, provides for the new version of article 166 A of the Labor Code.
PS deputy Fernando José referred that the party initially rejected the PSD proposal because it was already presented in the final stretch of voting in the working group, without the socialist parliamentary group having been able to consider it.
“The PSD made a proposal at that time and we said we needed time to evaluate it, but as we had to vote, we voted against it. Now we have evaluated the PSD proposal and changed our vote, because it makes sense to include the issue of cancer”, said Fernando José.
The changes to the labor law go to the final global vote on Friday and are due to come into force in April.
In 2021, when the teleworking regime was changed, it now covers, in addition to parents with children up to three years old, parents with children up to eight years old, without the need for an agreement with the employer, provided that it is exercised by both parents "in successive periods of equal duration within a maximum reference period of 12 months”.
Teleworking was also extended at the time to single-parent families or situations in which only one of the parents, demonstrably, meets the conditions to carry out the activity in a teleworking regime”.
This extension made in 2021 excludes, however, workers in micro-enterprises, that is, companies with less than ten employees.
Workers with non-main informal caregiver status also gained the right to perform telework functions, for a maximum period of four consecutive or interspersed years.
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