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The publication of the decree-law that adjusts to the lag regime defined by the Government for companies with more than 50 workers, in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, was highly anticipated by workers, employers and unions. The measure was highly criticized from the beginning, as the social partners “breached” many of the rules contained in the initial decree-law proposal sent by the Executive to the social partners for analysis. The Government will have been sensitive to the arguments of employers and unions and between the initial proposal and the final document, almost everything has changed. The term of the measure was clarified, which was not clear, the possibility of working in shifts was eliminated, keeping only night work (but only in cases where this was already practiced in the company), the group of employees. professionals who are not obliged to accept the time change, the concept of “serious injury” that a professional can evoke for not complying with the norm was clarified and the “unilateral” nature of the time change decision that put on maximum alert was reviewed unions. In practice, only the delay limits remained: minimum of 30 minutes and maximum of 60 minutes between teams. This is the number of professionals who will work until March 2021. For now, it is only in Lisbon and Porto, but the rule can be extended to other regions of the country.
