Until recently, app delivery people did not have any insurance or financial aid in the event of an accident. However, after sanctioning the bill carried out by the president, app delivery people will now have these benefits.
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First, the sanction carried out by the current president of Brazil obliges companies that operate in the delivery system (with deliveries) to pay for couriers of their companies an insurance that covers accidents and financial aid in situations where the couriers are infected by the transmitting virus of Covid-19.
However, as promising as this bill is, it will only be valid until the end of the pandemic, after which time app delivery people will again be at their own risk.
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Companies that use the delivery system must, from now on, take out insurance policies for their couriers. These insurance policies must cover:
- Permanent or temporary disability
- Personal accidents
- Death
The insurance can be activated during the journey for the delivery of the products or their collection, if the delivery person carries out deliveries to more than one company, the one that will cover the insurance will be the one for which he is carrying out activities at the time of delivery. accident.
Leave due to Covid-19 infection
After testing positive for Covid-19, the delivery person must present a medical report containing this contamination certificate or the actual result of this Covid test.
After this proof of contamination by covid-19, the company is obliged by law to provide the delivery person with financial aid within 15 days.
Thus, to calculate this payment, a monthly average of the last three payments of this delivery person must be made. So, this leave together with the financial aid can be postponed twice more in equal periods of 15 days.
In addition to insurance and removal due to covid-19 infection, companies are still obliged to provide water, gel alcohol, masks to your delivery people during the period they are working, or reimburse them for the purchase of these items. Companies must also allow the use of toilets by couriers.
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Failure to comply with these protective measures for app delivery people will be punishable. Therefore, the company will be warned for its behavior and if this situation happens again, there will be a fine on the company responsible for non-compliance with the measures. So, this fine will cost R$ 5 thousand reais for each infraction that the company commits.