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The Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion MTPE published this Tuesday March 30 through Supreme Decree No. 006-2021-TR the Regulation of collective bargaining and minimum working conditions of Law No. 31110 of the agrarian labor regime and incentives for the agricultural and irrigation agro-export and agro-industrial sectors.The norm specifies that the State recognizes and guarantees to workers in the agricultural and irrigation agro-export and agro-industrial sectors the rights to form the trade union organizations they deem appropriate to join them freely and to develop trade union activities for the defense and promoting their economic and social interests. Likewise the right to affiliate directly with federations or confederations.It establishes that the union jurisdiction includes all members of the unions in formation from the presentation of the application for registration and up to three 03 months after their registration. The parties may agree by means of a collective agreement for a longer period of protection of the union jurisdiction for workers and a greater number of workers covered by the union jurisdiction he says.Supreme Decree No. 006-2021-TR also promotes the right to collective bargaining in particular in areas higher than that of the company. According to the Regulation the parties decide by mutual agreement the level of collective bargaining. In the absence of agreement they can freely resort to mechanisms such as conciliation or mediation.It adds that without prejudice to this taking into account the seasonality and discontinuity of the activities they also have the power to resort to optional arbitration.The norm also establishes that the parties may be advised throughout the collective bargaining procedure by duly registered professionals as well as by leaders of higher-level organizations.Working conditionsThe norm establishes as a working condition the transfer of workers to the workplace by the employer when there is no public transport service for transfer to the workplace and it is not possible for them to move by their own means in a safe way.In no case can it be carried out in trucks merchandise transport vehicles or in general in any vehicle not built for the transport of people he points out.There is also a regulation on the feeding of the personnel which must be adequate according to the activity carried out. For this the technical documents issued by the National Food and Nutrition Center - CENAN of the National Institute of Health will be taken into account.The Regulation establishes that the dining rooms where the food will be served must be delimited and identified have minimum conditions of hygiene lighting ventilation and be equipped with appropriately covered tables or boards chairs or benches and clean water to wash hands and face before eating food.The norm also indicates that the employer guarantees the supply of potable water for human consumption during the whole working day and facilitates shaded rest areas for workers.It also indicates that the employer implements hygienic services for individual or collective use fixed or portable which have at least the sanitary devices. In workplaces where men and women work the toilets are independent and separate he says.
