There are workers who are receiving requests from their bosses to compensate for the hours when they failed to work during the electric blackout of April 28. But what does the law say?
The Deco Consumer Rights Association states that it is receiving complaints from workers whose employers are to require them to compensate for the hours where they failed to work during this Monday, April 28.
There will be even employers to “require the workers spend noon of vacation To cover the absence on the afternoon of the blackout, ”notes Deco.
However, “None of these requirements have a legal basis”explains the Consumer Rights Association in an analysis carried out in its official publication, a.
“If the worker If you have presented to the service and have not been able to work for cause that cannot be imputedthere is no foundation for the requirement of compensation of the unraveled hours, ”explains Deco Proteste.
In the event that workers accept employers’ requests, compensation hours “must be considered as supplementary work“The association also adds.
Is there the right to compensate for hours without electricity?
Deco also explains that “at the outset”, “there is no right to compensation for consumers” for the hours when it has been without electricity, since the blackout can be “framed as a fortuitous accident of great impact or as a exceptional event“.
This “means that there was nothing that electricity distributors could have done To avoid electricity breakdown, ”says Deco Proteste.
However, it is still necessary Regulating entity of energy services (Erse) “Assess what happened and if consumers should be compensated,” says Deco.
Thus, consumers should simply await new indications, since, if applied, “ Compensation will be automatic and will be paid to customers at the beginning of next year ”, through the billing operator of each citizen.
