Law No. 3/2020 of 23 March on exceptional and urgent measures for the emergency situation of health caused by the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2.

This Law is approved, through the procedure of extreme urgency and need provided for in article 60 of the Constitution. The Law establishes a very varied exceptional and urgent measures, of limited temporal scope aiming to mitigate the first effects that the situation of health crisis has on the people and on the companies. It is structured in 7 Chapters and 26 articles, and additional provisions. Chapter one contains a series of measures on labour; among them, the most important are aimed at guaranteeing the continuity of employment contracts, in order to safeguard the situation of the workers' collective, which is considered the most vulnerable. Chapter two contains various measures on social security, such as granting, for all insured persons who have been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2, as well as those who have been affected by an isolation measure and who cannot work, the right to receive financial benefits for temporary disability under the conditions established by the Social Security Law for the event of an occupational accident or occupational illness. Chapter three sets out measures in relation to leasing premises for business. Chapter four deals with measures in relation to the financial sector. Chapter five sets out various measures aimed at making it easier to fulfill tax obligations and adapting certain legal provisions, which are intended for a normal period of time, to this exceptional situation. Chapter six establishes meetings of the collective bodies of legal entities; and Chapter seven the suspension of deadlines and other measures.
Chapter two in particular, specifies also that persons who carry out an activity on their own as holders of a trade or industry or as holders of an agricultural or livestock operation may request the temporary suspension of the contribution.