📋 Tender Overview
By 42 votes in favor and 1 abstention the Chamber dispatched in general and in particular the bill that temporarily makes access requirements more flexible and increases the amount of unemployment insurance benefits under Law No. 19728 due to the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 and perfects the benefits of law No. 21227.In this way the initiative that is part of the Emergency Plan for the protection of family income and reactivation signed last June was able to complete its second procedure in the Chamber of Deputies.During the debate various senators and senators took the floor most of whom valued the progress of this initiative but raised their concerns by sectors that up to now have experienced problems in classifying the benefits. Content of the billTemporary flexibility of the conditions of access to Unemployment Insurance.Improvement of the benefits granted by the Unemployment Insurance.The benefits that are paid out of the funds of the Individual Unemployment Account CIC during the period of validity of this project as law will be governed by the transitory coverage table that is determined which establishes a replacement rate between the second and fifth turn maintained over time and equivalent to 55 of the average of the wages earned by the worker in the last 3 months in which contributions are registered prior to the end of the employment contract Unlike the regular table that establishes decreasing percentages over time.Improvement of the benefits of the Employment Protection Law.A minimum coverage is established during the period of suspension of the employment contract equivalent to 55 of the workers average remuneration prior to suspension.Regulates the right of private home workers who have suspended the effects of the employment contract in accordance with the employment protection law or for reasons of care to access emergency family income IFE.THE DEBATESenator Juan Pablo LetelierThis benefit extends until July 2021 and includes a job recovery rule for a large group of workers. I also want to see what will happen to the interpretation for those who were laid off in February or March in what conditions are they left Senator Jorge PizarroWe tried to have an evaluation of what the application of the project meant which seeks to make the requirements for accessing unemployment insurance funds more flexible. The vision of union and SME leaders was interesting especially about what will happen in the medium term .Senator Jos Garca RuminotThis is a very necessary project it seeks to make the rules of access to insurance more flexible allowing thousands of workers who having the funds have not been able to use them due to the contribution requirements. Likewise replacement rates are improved .Senator Carlos BianchiThe costs of the crisis have been covered by workers with their severance fund resources. Once the effects of this law end most of them could be fired and there they will not be able to face the real period of unemployment because they will not have funds .Senator Carolina GoicI want to reaffirm the urgency of this project because in the first employment protection law we all thought we were going to have a more limited crisis but today we have a longer horizon and many workers have been with suspended contracts for 3 months and that means that the replacement rate has been decreasing .Senator Ximena RincnAlong with congratulating this temporary flexibility to access unemployment insurance I think it is urgent for the government to understand that it must incorporate those who are out of benefits not only domestic workers but all sectors with presumed income .Senator Juan Antonio ColomaTo the extent that there are quarantines there are fewer job opportunities and therefore this ingenious insurance mechanism has been used. That is why I value the governments effort and this project is a sign that the pandemic is not over but we have to move forward to recover central elements of our society.Senator Carlos MontesThe issue of employment is going to become the main problem in the country. Today the numbers are worrying and the numbers of those who stopped looking for work are brutal due to the pandemic. I vote in favor and I wish I had made further progress .Senator Yasna ProvosteThere is a high probability that unemployment will continue so replacement rates should be raised allowing more money transfers. There must be a supplement to the solidarity contribution .Senator Rabindranath QuinterosI will vote in favor of the project because it considers immediate benefits. But this does not imply that you agree with what you propose. The economic costs are being paid by the workers themselves because they receive partial support from the unemployment insurance .Senator Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe I am glad that we are seeing this project that should have been discussed before due to its importance for hundreds of workers. Society has pending issues such as domestic workers .Senator Isabel AllendeWe are extremely concerned about the weight that this crisis means for workers. There are 700 thousand suspended employment contracts many of which are from the region I represent from Valparaso .Senator Claudio AlvaradoWe cannot lose sight of the fact that one of the main consequences of the pandemic is the social and economic crisis that affects jobs. This project comes to provide compensation for a specified period .Senator Carmen Gloria AravenaWe have all contributed to Chile. Today it is urgent to modify the databases of all the ministries so that the systems can converse and reduce bureaucracy .
