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“Deep Reform” in the Labor Code also intends to possibility of dismissal for fraud in self -declaration of illness.
The government wants to introduce changes to the father’s exclusive parental license, in order to force them to enjoy 14 days in a row Shortly after the birth of his son, according to the draft delivered to the social partners to which Lusa had access.
At issue is a proposal to change to article 43 of the Labor Code, referring to the father’s exclusive parental license, and which provides that it will be mandatory “the enjoyment by the father of a parental license of 28 days, followed or in interpolated periods, within 42 days of birth of the child, 14 of which have been consecutively enjoyed immediately after this ”.
Currently the law provides for parents to enjoy at least seven days after the birth of the child. “It is mandatory to enjoy the father of a 28 -day parental license, followed or in interpolated periods of at least 7 days, within 42 days to the birth of the child, 7 of which are consecutively cummed immediately after the following,” according to the current law.
Mourning, interruption of pregnancy
Among the more than 100 changes to the Labor Code contained in the draft reform of labor legislation delivered to social partners and will still be negotiated in social concertation are changes to various licenses such as the one of adoption, initial parental license or at dismissal for breastfeeding or breastfeeding.
The government intends to end the lack of Gestational mourningcurrently three days without loss of rights, adding to the license for interruption of pregnancy to the regime of family assistance.
Regarding Pregnancy Interruption Licenseprovided for in Article 38 of the Labor Code, the government wants to allow it to be considered a lack of assistance to the employee’s companion under these circumstances.
“To the worker’s companion, the regime of absences to the member of the household, provided for in article 252” is applicable, reads the draft of the law proposed to social partners, to which Lusa had access.
According to the current law, “in case of interruption of pregnancy, the worker is entitled to a license between 14 and 30 days”, and the violation of this law is a very serious offense.
Already in terms of foul for assistancethe law provides that the worker may lack work “up to 15 days a year to provide unavoidable and essential assistance, in case of illness or accident, a spouse or person who lives in a union of fact or common economy with the worker, relative or in the rise or 2nd degree of the collateral line.”
Dismissal in case of self -declaration of fraudulent disease
The government also wants to deliver a self -declaration of fraudulent disease to be entitled to a dismissal for just cause.
According to the current law, only the “presentation to the medical declaration employer with fraudulent purpose is a false declaration for the purposes of just cause of dismissal”, so the goal now is to extend it also to self-declarations of disease issued through the NHS 24 line.
These casualties may not exceed three consecutive days, and are limited to two uses per year, and there is no way to pay back to the employer.
The employer can prove the veracity of disease self -declarations. To this end, the worker must allow the employer to the access code of the self -declaration of illness assigned to him, after his issuance. “Subsequently, through the SNS 24 portal page you can check the authenticity of self -declaration,” according to the SNS 24 portal.
“Deep Reform” at work
The government approved on Thursday, in the Council of Ministers, the draft of “Deep Reform” Labor legislation, which will be negotiated with social partners, and includes reviewing “more than a hundred labor code articles”.
The reform, called “work XXI”, aims to make labor regimes “that are very strict” flexible, in order to increase “competitiveness of the economy and promote productivity of companies,” according to the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, at a press conference after the Council of Ministers.
