translated from Spanish: 40-hour workday reduction project to pass through the Constitutional Court

Deputy UDI, Guillermo Ramírez, presented a reservation of constitutionality in the framework of the initiative promoted by the opposition to reduce the working day from 45 to 40 hours. In this way, the discussion that is taking hold in the House Labor Committee will be taken to the Constitutional Court (TC). As he consigned 24 Hours, the parliamentarian of the officialism assured, that the initiative as such and this type of projects are exclusive to the presidential extension because they challenge state resources. I mean, it was Ramirez himself who last week indicated that if the project complied with the rules “I don’t see why we had to go to the TC.” The chair of the Lower House Working Committee, Gael Yeomans, said after the first session of the debate, where Labour Minister Nicolas Monckeberg was heard that “I am going to enforce the regulation”, regarding the possibility of the initiative being dispatched today to the room, and in reference to which it can handle the times of the discussion and also its closure. Camila Vallejo, a DEPUTY of the PC and who drives the project, called on the government to end “embarrassing, disrespectful behavior.” “What we are asking is that you leave the processing alone,” he said. Mr Francisco Eguiguren (RN) said that given the conditions under which the discussion of the initiative has been given, “we have no more than the obligation to appeal to the Constitutional Court”.

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