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Public employees who are not working remotely can be placed in places other than their usual work, as imposed by the employer, in response to the prevention needs of the covid-19 pandemic, the DGAEP said on Thursday.
“Public Administration workers who are not teleworking may be imposed, by the public employer, to safeguard both the public interest and the interest of the worker, the exercise of functions in a place other than the usual, when they are in I play management reasons. body or service and to ensure the fulfillment of its functions ”, can be read on the website of the Directorate General of Public Administration and Employment (DGAEP).
In these situations, the following criteria should be privileged “whenever possible”: the worker does not belong to risk groups or does not have dependent dependents integrated into risk groups and “greater proximity to the worker’s residence”, says the DGAEP.
The DGAEP updated the set of questions and answers available on the page dedicated to covid-19, specifically on the physical exercise of public functions, the day the Council of Ministers approved the resolution declaring the contingency situation in the country as of Tuesday. -market.
According to the DGAEP, public officials can also be covered by the rotation of hours between teleworking and face-to-face hours and can have their entry and exit times modified.
Within the maximum limits of the normal work period and respecting the right to daily and weekly rest provided by law or in an applicable collective labor regulation instrument, measures to prevent and mitigate the risks derived from the pandemic, namely, adoption of worker rotation scales between the teleworking regime and the work carried out in the usual, daily or weekly workplace, different entry and exit times, different break and meal times ”, indicates the DGAEP.
In addition, when face-to-face work is necessary, workplaces should be reorganized “allowing maximum distance between workers and, whenever possible, reducing the number of workers per room”, the document can read.
Immunosuppressed and chronically ill workers with a medical certificate can opt for the continuous working day, “having to determine the reduction of the normal working day by one hour,” the DGAEP also states.
Body temperature measurements can also be made to workers to access and stay in the workplace, and data recording is prohibited, unless expressly authorized.
“If there are temperature measurements above normal body temperature, that person’s access to the workplace can be prevented,” says DGAEP.
At a meeting of the Council of Ministers this Thursday, a set of measures was approved that will be applied from Tuesday, the day on which mainland Portugal will enter a contingency situation to “control the pandemic”, with the implementation of “preventive measures” , considering the period of return to school and work.
In addition to the rules for most of the continental territory, the Prime Minister, António Costa, announced specific measures for the Metropolitan Areas of Lisbon and Porto, where the risk of covid-19 incidence is higher due to the “higher population density ”, To determine the rotation scales between teleworking and face-to-face work and the mandatory delay in entry and exit times at the workplace, as well as the different hours of breaks and meals for workers.
