At its meeting no. 52 of 15 June 2020, the Council of Ministers approved a law decree introducing further urgent measures regarding wage supplementation treatment.

The text provides that, by way of derogation from current legislation:

• Employers who have benefited from ordinary, overtime or exceptional wage supplementation treatment for the entire period previously granted, up to a maximum of fourteen weeks, may also benefit from an additional four weeks for periods starting before 1 September 2020. This is without prejudice to the maximum duration of eighteen weeks, considering the treatments granted cumulatively.
• regardless of the reference period, employers who have erroneously submitted the application for treatments other than those to which they would have been entitled, or in any case with errors or omissions that prevented their acceptance, may submit the application in the correct manner within thirty days from the communication of the error in the previous application by the administration of reference, under penalty of forfeiture, even pending revocation of any award order issued by the competent administration.
• the deadlines for the submission of applications for regularization pursuant to Article 103 of Decree-Law No. 34 of 19 May 2020 are extended from 15 July to 15 August 2020.
• the deadlines for submitting applications for Emergency Income are extended from 30 June to 31 July 2020.