Companies in Portugal will be forbidden from contacting employees outside working hours and must meet their extra energy and communications costs under one of Europe’s most employee-friendly laws for regulating homeworking.
The law, due to come into force in the coming weeks, seeks to uphold the rights of remote workers and protect their family lives after the pandemic triggered a shift to working from home.
“Remote working has great advantages provided we control the disadvantages,” Ana Mendes Godinho, labour minister, told Lisbon’s Web Summit this month. “The pandemic accelerated the need to regulate what already needed to be regulated.”
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