📋 Tender Overview
With the unanimous vote the Senate Chamber approved and dispatched to fulfill its second constitutional process the bill that extends the benefits of the employment protection law and the one that improves conditions to access Unemployment Insurance.The initiative seeks to extend access to suspensions of the effects of employment contracts until December 6 2021 both for suspensions by act of authority and in cases where there is an agreement between the worker and the employer.Likewise it allows increasing the number of drafts charged to the Unemployment Insurance Solidarity Unemployment Fund to which people whose contracts have been suspended by act of authority and had exhausted previous drafts will have access.Prior to the vote Senators Juan Pablo Letelier and Jorge Pizarro in their capacity as presidents of the Labor and Finance committees respectively explained the scope of the project While the Minister of Labor Mara Jos Zaldvar gave figures regarding the number of workers who have accepted these laws and promised to send a report on the matter to the various senators.It is about 767 thousand workers who have accepted the law of suspension of contract or reduction of working hours of which 70 correspond to smaller companies and more than 117 thousand companies of which 98 have less than 200 workers.
