translated from Spanish: Pinera said that labor reform will enable to agree on four-day work weeks

President Sebastián Piñera, presented on Thursday, the main pillars of the work modernization project, he said, benefits to families and workers in the country. At the ceremony, the President said critics to measure and said that “nothing of what is contained in this project is to dismantle the rights of workers, that is the immediate, automatic, unthinking, reaction when you talk about modernization labour”. Pinera said that the initiative “seeks to strengthen the rights of workers, expand their areas of freedom, which seeks greater incorporation into the world of work and the compatibility with other worlds such as the family, sports, entertainment”. The President explained that the first pillar of the reform is to produce measures to negotiate new ways of working hours. “Lets agree on alternative days, as a monthly day of 180 hours at the individual level, which can be distributed in a flexible and comprehensive. Today the day can only be distributed between five and six days”said Pinera, who said that the proposal”increases that possibility so that it can be distributed between four and six days”. The President also said that the project will allow agreed days annual and semi-annual, allow workers that they want, work more at certain times of the year and less in others. The initiative, according to Pinera, also includes bags of overtime, which can be spread, change overtime for more vacation days, establish alternative schedules for the beginning and the end of the day and anticipate or delay the recovery of working hours a permit”. “Some people may want to to reduce the time of collation and anticipate the departure schedule”, said Pinera.la modernization, moreover, explained the President, it considers new rules, including contracts of formalization, “to formalize work Special, occasional or non-permanent”and”regulation of the economies of platforms, forcing service providers to that issued ballots of fees”. Pinera said that the initiative also involves measures to favour labour inclusion and to strengthen the prevention and control against labour and sexual harassment. Said the ruling, the initiative will also promote the leveling of studies for workers who have not completed their compulsory education.

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