The PS will propose that the SNS 24 digital service can issue justifications for sick leave of up to three days, instead of workers having to go to the health center or hospital for this purpose.
The proposal will be presented by the socialist parliamentary group next Wednesday, the day the vote ends in the framework of the labor law reform working group. This is a reform to an article of the Labor Code, which currently determines that proof of illness must be made “by declaration of a hospital or health center or by medical certificate.”
With the PS proposal, this topic will also include the possibility of the test being issued by the “digital service of the National Health Service”. But the SNS 24 can only approve the justification when “the worker’s illness situation does not exceed three consecutive days up to the limit of six days per year.” The news was advanced by Público y Negócios and confirmed by the PS deputy, Fernando José, to Observer. In these short-term absences, the worker does not receive salary or sickness benefit, but still has to justify the absence.
The idea is to legalize a practice that began during the pandemic, when the SNS 24 reported casualties due to Covid-19, or prophylactic isolation, so that patients did not have to go to the doctor.
The proposal is part of the votes of the working group of the decent work agenda, which is voting on a set of reforms to the labor law. Fernando José explained to the Observer that the changes will take effect “on the first business day of the month following their publication.” The publication should take place in March, so the entry into force should take place at the beginning of April (3).
The exception will be the rules relating to the expiration of collective agreements, which must enter into force before, on March 10. This will happen to avoid a “legal vacuum” that comes from the end, on March 9, of the moratorium on the expiration of collective agreements.
Source: Observadora
