translated from Spanish: They enrolled 103 fines for not respecting right to collation

more than $90 million total 103 fines given by the Labor Office in the last two years to companies for not respecting the right to collation of workers. Of these infractions, 26 belong to the metropolitan area, totaling $29.821.677. the Secretary of the Ministry of labour and Social Welfare, Paola Vidal, recalled that “this is a right that employers should give workers should enforce”, making a called to respect the rules. “Otherwise, the complaint must be at the direction of labour”, he warned. The violations committed were by cases such as not giving the right, do not record the granting of rest, not having adequate facilities for the collation, in addition to not start the rest of half an hour for collation between the 3.5 and 5 hours of started the shift, between otros.Comida and Produccionsegun the latest figures from the international organization of the work (ILO), in Chile 30% of workers do not have lunch regularly, 39% does not receive any benefit of power by their employers and 22% do not have a place for a meal. From these data, the Agency raised that “not adequate food can cause losses of up to 20% labor productivity”.

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