In order to support companies and employees during the Covid-19 health crisis, the so-called ‘labour protection’ bill, submitted by government to the Senate last January, will be promulgated in the coming days.
On Tuesday 31 March, after a joint committee session lasting more than 10 hours, both legislative chambers approved the text of the law that makes it possible to ‘protect jobs and the situation for employees using temporary measures.’ The law, which will apply retroactively from 18 March, the date on which Sebastián Piñera’s government declared a ‘state of national disaster’, allows for changes in access to Unemployment Insurance benefits (Law No. 19.728), in the event of extraordinary...
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