Employers will have one month, beginning this week, to contract the insurance that, by law, they must take out to protect workers governed by the Labor Code, whether in person or by telework, including, in addition, the implementation of a rigorous security protocol that includes the granting of all means and conditions to operate protected and avoid contagion.
Regarding compliance with this law, Deputy DC Gabriel Silber, member of the Labor Committee of the Chamber ofFiciated both the minister of this portfolio, Patricio Melero, as well as the undersecretary, Fernando Arab and the director of Labor, Lilia Jerez, to monitor full compliance with these rules that protect all workers.
“We are demanding that employers comply, without excuses, and workers, demand their rights, from the granting of good masks, alcohol gel other elements of the protection protocol, to the insurance that will cover them in the face of a Covid contagion,” Silber said.
The congressman said that the new insurance seeks to finance or reimburse the costs of hospitalization and rehabilitation that a worker could incur in case of contracting the coronavirus disease. In addition, the new covid-19 compulsory insurance also establishes life insurance in case of death caused by coronavirus disease, which would cover UF 180 capital.
As pointed out by Silber, member of the Labor Committee, “employers who do not take out insurance must pay the amounts that would have been due to cover the insurer, in addition to assuming sanctions, and those who do not have a covid-19 occupational health safety protocol will not be able to resume or start the work activity of a face-to-face nature”.
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