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The issues relating to employees' availability and continuous connectivity have become more significant with the pandemic and the increased use of teleworking, which has led to the introduction of a legal rule to try to curb this trend. Two years after the duty to abstain from contact came into force, the Portuguese Authority for Working Conditions (ACT) guarantees that it has already found situations where the law has been breached. Speaking to the Público newspaper, Pedro Antunes, a partner at CCA Law Firm in the Labour Department, commented on these situations of non-compliance found by the ACT.
The CCA partner emphasizes that: “(the complaints of which he has become aware) have been resolved internally by the companies, i.e., human resources took action to put a certain internal policy into practice, by defining and regulating what contacts may exist on a regular basis and in what situations employees can be called upon to respond immediately”.
- Público