Our labor law specialist, Michelle Pimenta Dezidério, published an article on the Lex Latin portal about Law 14.297, which protects app company delivery workers during the pandemic, and highlighted a rule that states that app companies shall provide financial aid for 15 days to service providers if they test positive for Covid-19. Even this aid, which will be calculated by the average of the last three monthly payments of the delivery worker, can be extended for two more periods of 15 days, as long as the provider presents a medical exam or report as proof of the illness.

According to our lawyer, the big unknown is to prove whether the worker was contaminated at work. The law is not clear in this regard and leaves uncertainties about how this financial aid will actually work on a day-to-day basis.

Michelle also commented on other rules set out in the new law: the obligation for the app company to take out accident insurance for the providers; to inform about the risks of the coronavirus, in addition to providing masks and alcohol gel for the delivery workers; as well as to establish mandatory terms in the hiring of the service provider. Another rule also mentioned, this time by restaurants and shopkeepers, is to allow the use of toilets by the delivery worker, as well as to provide drinking water.

Read the full article at the link: https://br.lexlatin.com/opiniao/como-comprovar-que-o-entregador-de-aplicativo-se-contaminou-no-trabalho