There is only one week left until the end of the legislative period of the labor reform and, with the advance in the round of voting in the Seventh Committee of the House of Representatives, progress has been made in the approval of more than 68 articles.
Furthermore, during the session that took place on June 14, article 50 was eliminated, reaching 21 eliminated, so that only 7 articles remain to be approved of the bill.
(More: Labor reform: less than 10% of its articles remain to pass in the first debate).
With a total of 68 articles approved and 23 eliminated, about 90% of the text has been discussed proposed.
Among the articles that were sunk were those that had to do with new compensation payments at the time of dismissal, reinstatement to work if the dismissal was due to discrimination, the modification of apprentice quotas in companies, in addition to the application of the collective bargaining, freedom of association and union membership.
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We tell you which were the most relevant articles of the labor reform that were already approved in the Congress of the Republic.
Articles that have already been approved of the labor reform
– Article 2: relationships regulated by the Substantive Labor Code.
– Article 3: restriction of inapplicability.
– Article 6: Employers must grant licenses to workers for various cases: exercising the right to vote, holding temporary official positions of forced acceptance, and in situations of serious domestic calamity that affect the normal development of their activities.
– Article 7: detailing the due disciplinary process.
– Article 11: publication of the work regulations.
– Article 15: day and night work. Establishes that day work covers the interval from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm, and night work will be from 7:00 pm to 6:00 am
-Article 16: which establishes that the ordinary work day is eight hours a day and a maximum of forty-two hours a week, with flexible distribution over five or six days, always guaranteeing a day of rest without affecting the salary.
– Article 19: remuneration for additional work. It establishes that work on mandatory rest days or holidays will be remunerated with a 100% surcharge.
– Article 21: limits of subordination.
– Article 23: measures to eliminate violence, harassment and discrimination in the world of work.
– Article 30: Social security and occupational risks on digital delivery platforms.
– Article 33: apprentice quotas in companies.
– Article 37: training program for rural work.
– Article 39: which establishes special protection for female, rural and peasant work.
– Article 42: migrant workers.
(See: Controversy over article that would compensate the reduction of working hours with overtime).
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– Article 45: participation for decent work in ethnic communities.
– Article 56: program of labor agreements for victims of the armed conflict.
– Article 57: Dignified and Decent Work Public Policy guidelines for the just transition and green and blue employment.
– Article 58: incentives for Green and Blue Employment.
– Article 59: training for the promotion of Green and Blue Jobs.
– Article 29: registration of information on digital delivery platforms.
– Article 32: transparency and use of automated supervision and decision-making systems.
– Article 46: contract of art and culture workers.
– Article 47: additional measures in labor relations for journalists, social communicators and related workers.
– Article 54: maternity and paternity leave for same-sex adoptive couples.
– Article 5: indefinite-term employment contract.
(More: Labor reform: the two articles that are the pillars of the project, according to Mintrabajo).
It is important to emphasize that for the labor reform project to continue its process in the next legislature and become law, it must be approved before the end of the legislative period, which expires on June 20.
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