The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has promulgated the diploma that extends unemployment benefits to victims of domestic violence and provides an incentive for the long-term unemployed to return to work.
The proclamation of the diploma was published this Wednesday on the website of the Presidency of the Republic.
The legal decree was planned more than a year ago, within the scope of the 2022 state budget, on the proposal of Livre, and was approved by the Council of Ministers on October 19.
“This legal decree extends the legal regime of social protection in case of unemployment to workers with the status of victims of domestic violence,” the government said in the statement released after the Council of Ministers meeting.
An official source from the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security subsequently told Lusa that “thePeople with the status of victims of domestic violence are equated with situations of involuntary unemployment if they terminate their employment contracthave access to unemployment benefits, even if the termination of the contract is on your initiative”.
Unemployment benefits are awarded “based on the career that someone with the status of a victim of domestic violence has made,” the agency said.
“The status of victim of domestic violence is granted in accordance with Article 14 of Law No. 112/2009 of 16 Septemberwhich establishes the legal regime applicable to the prevention of domestic violence and the protection and assistance of its victims”.
The decree has now been promulgated It also provides “an exceptional measure to promote the return to work of the long-term unemployed.”
This measure was provided for in the context of the Agenda for Decent Work and the income agreement that was signed in the Social Dialogue with several social partners.
“The diploma establishes a new mechanism that allows the partial accumulation of the amount of unemployment benefit with income from work, contributing to the employability of the long-term unemployed and their reintegration into the labor market,” the executive said in the Council statement. Ministers on October 19.
“This experimental regime will be applied in 2024 and 2025 and evaluated in 2026,” he said.
The recipients of the measure are unemployed people who have been receiving unemployment benefits for more than twelve months.
Source: DN
