Decree-Law No. 16/2020 establishing Support Measures to Employment within the scope of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

This Decree-Law, consisting of 16 articles divided into three Sections, establishes Support Measures to Employment within the scope of the COVID-19 Pandemic. In particular, it creates and regulates temporary financial support to employers and workers, being applicable to the private sector, comprising employers, employees, and, as long as they are enrolled in the social security contributory regime, to self-employed entrepreneurs, self-employed workers, managers and domestic service workers, who must satisfy the terms and conditions for the covered support to be granted. In addition, it establishes extraordinary allowance in case of suspension of the employment contract or reduction of working hours, exemption from the duty to pay social contributions and extraordinary allowance in case of loss of income.