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State of emergency will be renewed: know what changes

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The President of the Republic’s proposals to renew the state of emergency refer to job protection, price control, support for the elderly, education and prisons.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa proposed to the parliament the renewal of the state of emergency in Portugal for a new period of 15 days. The current state of emergency runs from March 19 until 11.59 pm on Thursday, April 2.

The renewal covers the entire national territory and “lasts for 15 days, starting at 00.00 hours on April 3, 2020 and ending at 23.59 hours on April 17, 2020, without prejudice to any new renewals, in the terms of the law. “

The Assembly of the Republic will debate and vote this Thursday on the renewal of the state of emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic and three government diplomas in the context of combating the outbreak.

– Compulsive confinement at home, health care facility or other location defined by the authorities may be imposed.

– Sanitary fences may be imposed.

– Prohibition, “to the extent strictly necessary and proportionally”, of trips that are not justified, namely through work, obtaining health care, assistance to third parties, production and supply of goods and services and other “ponderous reasons”, the Government being responsible for specifying “the situations and purposes in which the freedom of individual movement, preferably unaccompanied, if keeps”.

– Face-to-face classes may be prohibited or limited.

– Can be distance learning imposed by telematic means (using the Internet or television).

– May be imposed postponement or extension of school terms.

– Adjustment of assessment methods may be imposed.

– Can be determined suspension or recalendarization of exam tests or the opening of the school year.

– “Possible adjustments” can be made to the model of access to higher education.

– The authorities can request the provision of any services and the use of goods from health units, commercial and industrial establishments, companies and other productive units.

– The mandatory opening and operation of companies, services, establishments and means of production may be determined or their closure.

– Can be limitations on dismissals, changes to the quantity, nature or price of goods produced and sold or to the distribution and marketing circuits.

– Changes to the operating regime of companies, establishments and production units may be imposed.

– Can be measures to control prices and combat speculation or hoarding certain products or materials.

– The terms and conditions of long-term performance contracts may be temporarily modified or the requirement for certain installments to be waived.

– The right to restore the financial balance of concessions may be limited due to a break in the respective use resulting from the measures adopted in the context of the state of emergency.

– Income, interest, dividends and other property or capital income can be reduced or deferred, without penalty.

– It can be determined that employees of public, private or social sector entities, regardless of the type of employment, present themselves at the service and, if necessary, start to perform functions in a different place and entity and work schedule.

Workers in the health, civil protection, security and defense sectors are covered, as well as other activities necessary for the treatment of the sick, support for vulnerable populations, the elderly, people with disabilities, children and young people at risk.

The functions may be performed in residential structures, in home or street support, in support of the production, distribution and supply of essential goods and services.

– The temporary reduction scheme for normal working time can be extended and simplified

– The right of union associations to participate in the drafting of labor legislation is suspended.

– The exercise of the right to strike is suspended when it compromises the functioning of critical infrastructures, health units and essential public services, as well as in economic sectors vital to the production, supply and supply of essential goods and services.

– Border controls on people and goods, including sanitary and phytosanitary controls at ports and airports, can be established.

– The necessary measures can be taken to ensure the international circulation of essential goods and services.

– The limitation or prohibition of meetings or demonstrations may be imposed.

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