The Government revoked the diploma that suspended the active search for face-to-face employment for unemployment benefit recipients. Measure was in effect since January, when the country entered its second general confinement.
from this tuesday, 27 April, the unemployed who are registered with the public employment services and covered by unemployment benefits, will have to go back to actively looking for a job, even if for this they have to travel in person to potential employers or to prove their demand with the services of the Employment and Professional Training Institute (IEFP).
The Government revoked this Monday the diploma that since January, due to the worsening of the pandemic situation in the country, suspended active job search in person. Unemployed people can also be called up for face-to-face training sessions again..
From janeiro de 2021 that active job search processes – essential not just for unemployed covered by unemployment protection, but also by beneficiaries of Extraordinary Income Support for Workers (AERT), the social support created by the Executive for workers in a situation of economic deprivation – had been transferred to the remote regime, due to the aggravation of the number of infections by covid-19 in national territory.
In the order published yesterday, and with practical effects from today, the Executive understands that the conditions for a return to normality are met., without the need to "maintain the suspension of the obligation to fulfill the duty of active job search, as well as its demonstration before the public employment service, when it involves face-to-face travel", read in the dispatch. So, beneficiaries for whom proof of active job search is mandatory and conditions access to unemployment protection benefits, they have to do it again in person.
The same order determines that the unemployed can also be called back to joint training sessions in the classroom., in other words, face-to-face, “in the context of carrying out the actions provided for in the personal employment plan”.
