translated from Spanish: What does the initiative for the modernization of the working day for people with disabilities

During this Thursday, President Sebastián Piñera, present or Bill of modernization work for the reconciliation of work, family and inclusion. Thus, the initiative seeks to workers to adapt their working hours to their different realities. This is the second project in the framework of the labour reform, after the modernization of the national service for training and employment (Sence).
At present, the regulation of the labour code dictates that the workday cannot exceed 45 hours per week, or nor distributed in more than 6 or less than 5 days. Exceptions apply only to the mining sector and the Covenants of adaptability (which are agreed with trade unions).
The new changes introduced by this project include the possibility of changing the working time of 45 hours per week by one of 180 monthly, distributed by the employee; also the possibility of distributing the hours at least 4 days nor more than 6 days; agree schedule alternative input and output of the workplace or compensate extra hours with more days of vacation.
All these measures are intended to encourage a more inclusive labour market, with more respect and dignity for the people. This is that establishing a series of measures to promote the participation of women, as well as also facilitate the participation of older adults and persons with disabilities.
On this last point made reference Matías Poblete, President of the Chilean Foundation for the disabled.
“This project, which would allow for flexible working hours, will facilitate, in turn, that persons in situation of disability can move using public transportation on a schedule that is not time point, which could make use of spaces” preferential or exclusive”, such as seats, among others, without difficulty and without having to be travelling in a bus or metro that is filled with wagon argued Poblete, making clear in addition, complications that disabled people live every day to the time to move.
He also explained other facilities that might occur in case of approval of the initiative. “This flexibility also allows that it can be a greater number of hours of work on a different day of the year. Workers in situation of disability can gather more hours in summer, thus make fewer hours in winter, so that when there is an adverse climate, they can protect their health”.
Finally, the President of the FChD slipped a critique, not to the measures for the workday itself, but the amendments relating to the field of education. “What seems necessary to tune is the fact that will allow differential education institutions to receive donations by statutory 21.015 measurement. “This, because today the Council of donations is receiving them only in those projects that foster the creation of jobs, while the law provides another type of projects can be”, topped.

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