📋 Tender Overview
After concluding discussion of the indications presented to the project that introduces modifications to the Labor Code in the matter of labor inclusion of people with disabilities and disability pension assignees the text was sent to the Chamber for its next vote.The proposal initiated in a message was approved by the members of the Labor and Social Welfare Commission in its last session. In fact the agreements reached at the working table made up of the advisers of the senators Carolina Goic Adriana Munoz Juan Pablo Letelier Rodrigo Galilea and Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe and those of the Ministries of Labor and Social Development were reviewed.It should be remembered that in the current Labor Inclusion Law it is established that companies with 100 or more workers must hire or keep hired as appropriate at least 1 of people with disabilities or who are assignees of a disability pension of any pension scheme in relation to the total of its workers.However among the indications approved by the congressmen is the obligation that these companies must carry out to adapt their mechanisms procedures and practices of recruitment and selection of personnel to safeguard equal opportunities for people with disabilities who participate in them.The requirements that people with disabilities must meet to join a job were also reviewed. Thus the multiple difficulties that exist especially in the public sector were discussed giving way to modifications to the general Administrative Statute the Municipal Statute and the Education Assistants Statute.Thus it was approved that it will be understood that the requirement of complete secondary education is met by persons with disabilities of legal age who have a graduation certificate issued by the special education establishment where they studied or have certified trades or skills from SENCE. The integration of a representative of the workers organization of the Disability Advisory Council in the Board of Directors of the Mixed Social Support Fund was also discussed which was unanimously supported.Regarding the transitory regulations it was cleared that the text will come into effect from its publication in the Official Gazette except for the requirements for entering the Public Administration the Municipal Administration and that of the Education Assistants which will be effective on the first day of the 13th month of publication of the law.In addition January 1 2025 will be the deadline that employers must meet to have the quota of 2 of their workers with disabilities. The project shortens the evaluation dates of the current law to every three years.
