More than eighteen months after its initial drafting, the coronavirus pandemic alongside the outlook for a serious nationwide economic and social crisis have provided the necessary impetus for the definitive adoption on 23 March of legislation modifying the country’s Labor Code that regulates and supervizes distance work. The new law was officially published on 26 March (here) and comes into effect within 30 days.
‘Overcoming the health crisis.’ ‘The more workers can distance work, the less they are exposed to the Coronavirus,’ the Labor Minister, María José Zaldívar welcomed continuing, ‘parliamentarians have thus not only passed legislation allowing job creation, but more importantly, they have set a standard in motion to help us overcome the health crisis we are currently experiencing.’
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