The new regulation of telework and remote work in Portugal: considerations and prospects

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Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Catarina de Oliveira
Data de Publicação: 2022
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/40988
Resumo: COVID-19 led to an extraordinary increase in both telework and remote work, exposing some of the fragilities and loopholes of the Portuguese applicable regulation and leading the Portuguese Parliament to approve a new law on teleworking in the form of an amendment to the Labour Code aimed at extending the protection of teleworkers. This paper intends to analyse this new regulation implemented by Law No. 83/2021 of 6 December regarding its concept and scope of application; the telework agreement and the principle of volunteering; teleworkers’ rights and employers’ duties related to equipment, tools and teleworking-related expenses; employers’ duty to abstain from any contact during rest periods; privacy and data protection; health, safety and work-related accidents; and the right to telework, namely for work-life balance reasons. The final objective is to provide a critical overview of the legal regulation, assessing its strengths and weaknesses.
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title The new regulation of telework and remote work in Portugal: considerations and prospects
spellingShingle The new regulation of telework and remote work in Portugal: considerations and prospects
Carvalho, Catarina de Oliveira
Telework
Remote work
Work-life balance
Duty not to connect
Portugal
Gender equality
title_short The new regulation of telework and remote work in Portugal: considerations and prospects
title_full The new regulation of telework and remote work in Portugal: considerations and prospects
title_fullStr The new regulation of telework and remote work in Portugal: considerations and prospects
title_full_unstemmed The new regulation of telework and remote work in Portugal: considerations and prospects
title_sort The new regulation of telework and remote work in Portugal: considerations and prospects
author Carvalho, Catarina de Oliveira
author_facet Carvalho, Catarina de Oliveira
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Carvalho, Catarina de Oliveira
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Telework
Remote work
Work-life balance
Duty not to connect
Portugal
Gender equality
topic Telework
Remote work
Work-life balance
Duty not to connect
Portugal
Gender equality
description COVID-19 led to an extraordinary increase in both telework and remote work, exposing some of the fragilities and loopholes of the Portuguese applicable regulation and leading the Portuguese Parliament to approve a new law on teleworking in the form of an amendment to the Labour Code aimed at extending the protection of teleworkers. This paper intends to analyse this new regulation implemented by Law No. 83/2021 of 6 December regarding its concept and scope of application; the telework agreement and the principle of volunteering; teleworkers’ rights and employers’ duties related to equipment, tools and teleworking-related expenses; employers’ duty to abstain from any contact during rest periods; privacy and data protection; health, safety and work-related accidents; and the right to telework, namely for work-life balance reasons. The final objective is to provide a critical overview of the legal regulation, assessing its strengths and weaknesses.
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