📋 Tender Overview
Twelve leaders of native communities of the Awajn people presented their labor problems before representatives of Sunafil and the Regional Directorate of Labor and Employment Promotion as part of the first round table that takes place in the Community House of the Tayuntsa Town Center district of Nieva located in the province of Condorcanqui. This is the first time that Sunafil listens and seeks to pay attention directly to the difficulties presented by workers in this vulnerable area of the country regarding the fulfillment of their labor rights within the framework of article 20 of Convention 169 of the ILO. Using an interpreter in the Awajn language information was provided about the obligations that companies that hire this population must have so that the community can claim with knowledge of their rights and to avoid labor and security problems and occupational health in the future. At the end of the meeting the authorities assumed the commitment through the signing of an act to train the members of the native communities on labor rights as well as explain the free services of Sunafil. They also promised to provide service channels so that they can make labor inquiries and initiate control actions to the companies that hire them mobilizing special teams of inspectors from Lima during the first half of the year. Informality is not having rights. It is when the companies do not recognize their remuneration vacations insurance a retirement pension. When an employer violates these rights Sunafil will be there to assist them said Jess Balden Superintendent of Sunafil. Also participating in the activity were the Apu of the Tayuntza native community Dan Torres Mozombite Baltazar Shajian president of twelve native communities of Chamikar the regional mayor Juan Carlos Vsquez Baneo the National Mayor for Prevention and Counseling Guillermo Fustamante and the regional director of Labor and Employment Promotion Alexander Mestanza Chochabot. The native community of Tayuntsa has 1200 inhabitants of which 500 work The 12 Chamikar communities are made up of approximately 8000 people.
