📋 Tender Overview
The Labor Commission approved and dispatched the project originated in motion that modifies the Labor Code to deliver new protection measures to the worker of a private home affected by a contagious disease when it had been declared an epidemic or pandemic by the health authority.For the treatment of this proposal and prior to its vote the instance listened to the Undersecretary of Labor Fernando Arab who supported the regulations in process noting that the Executive has supported the regulations that are for the benefit and protection of this group of workers. The initiative which will go to the Hemicycle and will be reported by Deputy Amaro Labra PC was approved in general unanimously last July.In its last milestone of processing in the aforementioned Commission an amendment to the Labor Code was approved where the current norm art. 152 is replaced by a new text that indicates that in the event of an epidemic or pandemic declared as such by the Competent health authority the worker of private home indoors who must comply with mandatory quarantine may decide to carry it out at the home of his employer to the extent that sanitary conditions allow.Likewise the project states that if there are people at risk in your workplace the alternative just mentioned must be agreed upon by mutual agreement. The project also adds that all the legal text regulations in question will be applicable as long as they are not incompatible or contradictory with this chapter of the contract for private home workers.
