Sick child? Learn your rights to assistance as a worker.

Discover your rights to assistance for a sick child as a worker.

According to the Authority for Working Conditions (ACT), if your child is sick, as a worker you have a set of rights to provide assistance.

"A publication from ACT on the social network Instagram states that absences for child care require the following rules: "

• "Up to 30 days per year, or during the entire period of eventual hospitalization, to provide urgent and essential care, in case of illness or accident, to a child under 12 years of age or, irrespective of age, to a child with disabilities or chronic illness."

• "Up to 15 days per year to provide urgent and essential assistance - in case of illness or accident to a child * aged 12 or older who, if older, is part of the household."

• "Add one day for each child beyond the first";  

• "The employer may require proof of the urgent and essential nature of the assistance and a declaration that the other spouse is employed and does not miss work for the same reason or is unable to provide assistance."  

• "The worker is entitled to a subsidy, which is equal to 100% of the beneficiary's reference salary."  

Also read: How to access Informal Caregiver Support in Portugal?

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