Spain has lived a Unpublished day in its historyafter him Mass blackout which kept the entire Iberian Peninsula including Portugal. The incident forced a good part of public transport services, as well as at the close of many companies before the lack of electricity supply and possible security problems.
Given this unpublished event, the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy issued several communications through its profile in the social network X in which it remembered the workers:
“The Government guarantees the protection of working people in the face of electricity supply problems. Blooded permits are available for affected workers.”
Remunerated permits by force majeure
As happened with the DANA or other adverse phenomena, the ministry reminds the workers that the Workers Statute It provides special coverage for cases classified as force majeure, preventing companies from retaliation in the form of layoffs or salary sales for this reason.
In article 37.3 section G, which addresses the regulations on weekly rest, parties and permits, the statute of the workers establis Imminent, including those derived from a catastrophe or adverse meteorological phenomenon. “
As they remembered from the Ministry, they are covered by the permission paid for causes of force majeure:
Because the official recommendations of not moving if it is not strictly necessary given the serious traffic incidents that left streets and roads without light signaling and the great traffic jams that this caused, this article of the Statute of the Workers is applied.
In addition, the regulations also collect the assumption of doing the work remotely provided that the networks allow their development, something that could not always be carried out before the fall and saturation suffered by the entire communication network throughout yesterday’s day, and The impossibility of feeding computers.
Although most of the services have already been restored with the return of the electricity supply, the official communications warn that, during the day today, Incidents can still be registered In the different services, so it is possible that, in some cases, today they can also benefit from that paid permit when it is not possible to move to the workplace.
However, despite the incidents in transport that may remain to be resolved in transport, communication networks remain operational, so the remote work option is viable when possible.
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