Modifying the Labor Code to allow companies to implement the exceptional extended workday of 12 hours a day, is a proposal being discussed in Costa Rica due to the need of industries that depend on continuous processes and encounter obstacles in the law.
In the Commission of Treasurers of the Legislative Assembly is initiative number 21,182, a parliamentary proposal that seeks to modify the Labor Code and update it according to present needs.
As part of the process of reopening the Panamanian economy, it is estimated that in the last two weeks close to 90,000 work contracts have been reactivated, which represents 30% of the suspended labor agreements.
Due to the outbreak of covid-19 and the restrictions imposed by the Panamanian authorities on most economic activities, from March to date about 292 thousand labor contracts have been suspended.
Faced with the sudden change that the new normal generated in companies, employees are challenged to increase their skills to work remotely, adapt to more flexible contracts and refine their technological skills and cognitive qualities.
Telecommuting has become an everyday occurrence among companies in the region, which have had to adjust to the restrictions imposed by governments due to the outbreak of covid-19.
Following the state of calamity in the country, the Ministry of Labor created an electronic procedure, through which companies can temporarily suspend the contracts of their workers.
Ministerial Agreement 140-2020, published on April 7 in the Official Journal, explains that the government measure is temporary and exclusively applicable as long as the circumstances and effects of the covid-19 pandemic, which has been declared worldwide, and its effects on employment contracts persist.
In the second debate, the bill to regulate telework was approved, with the aim of promoting this type of work to boost employment generation in the country.
According to the approved bill, in order to establish a telework relationship, the employer and the teleworker must sign a telework contract, which is subject to the law and other provisions governing employment in Costa Rica, informed the Legislative Assembly.
With the entry into force of part-time work in Guatemala, coffee growers could increase the number of people currently employed by between 5% and 10%.
The norm regulating this type of work is only in force for one month, since on June 27, 2019, Governmental Agreement 89-2019 was published in the official newspaper, establishing the Regulations of Convention 175 of the International Labor Organization (ILO), which regulates the hiring of part-time personnel in the country.
A bill proposes to simplify the process for hiring foreign professionals and technicians in Panamanian public health institutions.
From a press release issued by the Government of Panama:
The Cabinet has approved a bill which streamlines the process for hiring professionals and foreign health technicians in the Social Security Department (CSS) and the Ministry of Health.
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