Just days before celebrating another May 1st, a date of special significance as we remember the historic struggle for the demands of workers around the world; the project, proposed in 2017, “40 hours”, a legal initiative that sought to modify the Labour Code to establish measures to make the working day more flexible by distributing the hours of work based on a “weekly average of 40 hours”, in a cycle of up to four weeks, approaching the trend of the OECD, is approved in the country.
Official history tells us that in the middle of the 18th century in Great Britain, as a result of industrialisation as a method of chain production, many factories received workers before dawn and let them go at dusk, who worked under very poor conditions, especially hard on children.
Thus began a long trade union struggle that would gradually improve the working conditions, right up to the present day.
“40 hours”. Hope for many or the waiting room for the quality of life and wellbeing of workers?
According to figures from the OECD 2019, Chile was in sixth place among the countries with the longest working hours, with an average of 1,974 hours per year. Long working hours (in addition to transport) with working hours that negatively affect the lives of thousands of women and men, depriving them of time for family, social and personal development, living to work and not working to live.
The prevailing economic model establishes certain rules that limit bargaining power, discrediting the...
Over the last year, beyond traditional healthcare and federal procurement matters, the government has pursued federal False Claims Act (FCA) investigations and enforcement across high-risk areas, i...