📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare reports that in coordination with the Ministry of Finance it was agreed to extend the validity of the regulations on suspension of the effects of the contracts of the Employment Protection Law Law No. 21227 by a month more that is until October 6 2021 .With this the validity of the regulations that have made possible since April 2020 the temporary suspension of employment contracts as a result of acts or declarations of authority example quarantines or by suspension agreements is extended. In addition the extension grants the right to an additional drawing charged to the Unemployment Insurance Solidarity Unemployment Fund that is up to 19 drawings for workers suspended by act of authority who have exhausted their previous drawings. This extension is also extended to the rules for making access more flexible and improving Unemployment Insurance benefits Law No. 21263.Likewise the validity of the Protected Parenting laws laws n 21247 and 21351 which contain the Parental Preventive Medical Leave LMPP -which allows to extend the postnatal leave for up to 90 days- the unilateral suspension of the contract is extended. of work for care reasons and an exceptional benefit for up to 90 additional days for workers who have used the aforementioned leave for at least once.As for the second tool contemplated by the Employment Protection Law LPE and which corresponds to the temporary reduction of the working day it will remain in force until December 31 2021.The Employment Protection Law and the laws derived from it were published as of April 2020 in order to protect the employment source of workers in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic allowing them to access the benefits and benefits charged to the Unemployment Insurance during that period.In the most critical period of the pandemic the LPE made it possible to protect the contracts of more than 800 thousand workers mainly from micro small and medium-sized companies. To date the suspensions under the Employment Protection Law in force total 89249 of which 47269 thousand are suspensions by act of authority. Today the economic and health scenario is different and the decision to extend this law by one month obeys that context as explained by the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare Patricio Melero. Our economy is recovering strongly. Today there is no quarantine commune many are in phases that allow greater mobility and capacity and with this employment is strongly recovering. We are in a moment of reactivation and openness and we have multiple State aid to encourage employment support families and SMEs to recover strongly. In this framework we call on companies to reinstate their workers and offer new jobs. Today there are economic conditions and support mechanisms for this to happen said the Secretary of State.Among these mechanisms the Minister stressed that from now on companies can opt for the Regresa Subsidy to reincorporate workers who are still covered by the LPE or they can reincorporate them with their reduced working hours.In the case of working women and mothers the Government has also pledged its support through the Contrata and IFE Laboral labor subsidies the amount of which is higher compared to men. Added to this is the Protege Subsidy which is compatible with other State subsidies and which grants 200 thousand a month to support working mothers for the care of their children.Finally the secretary of state recalled that all these aids Subsidios Regresa Protege IFE Laboral are compatible with the IFE Universal. In other words the IFE Universal which today is reaching more than 15 million people and which is available until December is not lost for reinstating workers to their functions or finding a new job.
