"Workers have already activated 312,000 'autobaixas'" (with Joana Brisson Lopes)

«The lawyers' offices also hear echoes of concern. "There are situations happening," confirms Joana Brisson Lopes, Managing Associate of the Employment law and social security department at SRS Legal, who even reports the case of "a company in which two workers, in a relationship, asked for a day off next to a public holiday. The employer explained that in a small team could only give one. The next day the other activated a Self-Declaration of Sickness".

"The ability to decide when to work has been passed on to the person concerned", the lawyer emphasizes. And she talks about a mechanism in which "the only possible means of control is disciplinary" and in which "proof, while not impossible, is very difficult, which leads to abuses". It warns, however, that "false declaration of illness is one of the grounds for dismissal with just cause" and reinforces that "the employer can take disciplinary action if it suspects that the declaration of illness is false and can prove it".»