President of Chile Sebastián Piñera announced las Friday (may 3rd) the key provisions of a bill that will be presented this week to the Parliament aiming at « modernizing labor legislation » to get out, he emphasized, rigourous legal constraints and to address worker's needs of flexibility. The main measures – the possibility to irregularly distribute working hours through the month, to dispatch the weekly working hours (45 hours) within a 4 days week or to compensate overtime work with days offs – are criticized by the opposition and unions who would have preferred a working-time reduction from 45 hours a week to 40.
According to the announcements, the bill will allow employers to agree with workers, on an individual basis, on a monthly work duration of maximum 45 hours a week (as it is today), which can be executed in 4 or 6 days (today, the labor law allows for dispatching working hours in 5 days, (maximum 6). And, it is a major change, in 180 hours a month, distributed in flexible ways each week.
In addition, the bill will enable the employee to choose between getting the extra work hours be paid or compe
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