Article 330-E Federal Labor Law

In the teleworking modality, the employers shall have the following special obligations:

I.Provide, install and take charge of the maintenance of the equipment necessary for teleworking such as computer equipment, ergonomic chairs, printers, among others;

II.Receive the work opportunely and pay the wages in the form and on the dates stipulated;

III.Assume the costs derived from the work through the teleworking modality, including, as the case may be, the payment of telecommunication services and the proportional part of electricity;

IV.Keep a record of the supplies delivered to the employees under the teleworking modality, in compliance with the provisions on the matter of safety and health at work established by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare;

V.Implement mechanisms that preserve the security of the information and data used by the employees in the teleworking modality;

VI.Respect the right to disconnection of the employees in the teleworking modality at the end of the working day;

VII.Register the employees in the teleworking modality in the mandatory regime of social security, and

VIII.Establish the training and advisory mechanisms necessary to guarantee the adaptation, learning and the proper use of the information technologies of the employees in the teleworking modality, with special emphasis on those that change from the in-person modality to teleworking.