The Ombudsman sent a recommendation to the Minister of Labour and Solidarity and Social Security suggesting a set of changes to the measure provided for in article 26 of Decree-Law no. 10-A/2020, of 13 March, of extraordinary support for the reduction in the activity of self-employed workers due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus. To read the recommendation, click…
The Ombudsman welcomes the alteration to the regulation of the special regimes for access and entry into higher education, implemented through article 3 of Decree-Law no. 11/2020, of 2 April, which makes it possible to overcome a situation of injustice previously reported to the Government. The lack of articulation of the timetable established for the formalisation of applications under the…
The Ombudsman received a response from the Minister of Education in which the ruler informs that he will not comply with the Recommendation to amend the legislation in order to extend the measure of free distribution of textbooks to all students who are proven to be in need and who attend private or cooperative education. To read the reply of…
The Ombudsman suggests the consideration and adoption of measures for exceptional and temporary support to lawyers and solicitors similar to those that have been recognised for self-employed workers. To read the letters sent to the Secretary of State for Social Security and the Deputy Secretary of State for Justice, click here [in Portuguese, only].
To read the communication addressed by the Ombudsman to the Director General of Health click here [in Portuguese only].
As part of the state of emergency, the Ombudsman sent the Minister of Justice a recommendation on prison establishments. To read the recommendation, click here [in Portuguese only].
The Ombudsman received several complaints from workers whose functions are incompatible with the teleworking regime and are forced to miss work to provide support to the elderly who are part of their household and depend on their permanent support, especially in the face of the recent closure of social responses in which they were integrated (day centers and homes). The…
At this very serious moment in our collective life, many citizens are wondering about the meaning and scope of the State of Emergency, decreed on the 18th by His Excellency the President of the Republic. The questions, associated with natural feelings of unease and apprehension, are in themselves more than justified. Never before, during the almost forty-four years of the…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, sent a recommendation to the Minister of Health proposing a revision of the legal regime for issuing Multipurpose Disability Medical Certificates (AMIM), as well as clearer and more comprehensive disclosure of its purpose and scope. This recommendation follows the reception of complaints in increasing numbers, particularly in the last two years, the majority focusing on…
The Ombudsman, Maria Lúcia Amaral, sent a recommendation to the Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security following the receipt, in the last two years, of more than two and a half hundred complaints on issues related to attribution of the Social Inclusion Benefit (PSI). Created by Decree-Law no. 126-A/2017, of 6 October, the PSI would progressively aggregate a set…
