The Ministry of Labor is going to present a bill defining a legal framework for telework, which concerns 2 million Argentinean workers (12.5 percent of the working population). The text aims to guarantee the full application of workers’ rights for people who work from a distance – home or a place that isn’t the company. One controversial measure is the obligation for businesses to cover all telework-related expenses.
The need for a law supervising telework and defining a clear legal framework for the relationship between teleworkers and their employer was acknowledged by the Argentinean Minister of Labor, who will send a bill on the subject to the lawmakers this year. In this country, 12.5 percent of the active population, i.e. 2 million people, have already adopted telework, which allows them to work from home or another place outside the company. A recent survey found that 8 in 10 workers would like to
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