📋 Tender Overview
The Labor and Social Security Commission approved in general and unanimously the bill started on a motion that excludes contagious disease as a cause for termination of contract for Private House Workers.The parliamentarians gave the go-ahead to an indication presented by the Executive at the request of the workers that permanently eliminates this cause as a reason for terminating the contract according to the Labor Code. According to the undersecretary of Labor Fernando Arab present at the session this was a request yearned for by the union.It should be remembered that this project proposed to modify the aforementioned Code so that this cause could not be invoked in the event of a disease declared as a pandemic or epidemic but the indication presented by the government extends its application as a general rule.The motion defended before the instance by its authors the deputies Claudia Mix Common and Maite Orsini RD also stipulates that as long as there is a serious risk to the life or health of the worker he may suspend his functions voluntarily during the existence of these circumstances.In addition the legal proposal which will continue with its vote in particular in the next session states that in the case of private house workers or those who must do preventive or mandatory quarantine the employer must allow said worker to remain at your workplace.
