The senator of National Party, Juan Sartori, presented a project that raises the flexibility of the working day in Uruguay, with the aim of adapting the processes and relationships linked to work to the constant dynamics of social changes.
The country’s labor sector is agitated by the great series of changes that are intended to be applied from different sectors: with the reduction of the working day promoted by the PIT-CNT and that broad front collects on parliamentary matters, on the one hand; and for the presentation a few days ago by the Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Mieres, of a project that seeks to divide work licenses, on the other.
Now, the nationalist senator Juan Satori presented a project that seeks to enable that, in the event of extra-labor needs, defer compliance with daily working hours on the rest of the days of the week.
According to the text, it is relevant to generate new tools that provide solutions to the universe of hypotheses that arise in the workplace, but that are not allowed or do not have a specific regulation; especially in a context in which the labor relations lagged behind regarding the constant social changes that occur today.
In this sense, it adds that currently the rules of labor relations in the private sphere do not provide for the compensation of hours.
What does Sartori’s easing propose?
The white senator postulates the possibility that, without the need for exacerbated justifications, the fulfillment of the hours to work within the limits established for the work week can be deferred. Thus, the 8 hour day —limited by law 5,350 of 1915— could be exceeded to make up hourswhich would not fall within the regime of overtime -contemplated in law 15,996 of 1988, which understands as overtime all that exceeds the time limit applicable to each worker.
The explanatory statement states that “in times when other initiatives presented to Parliament seek the general reduction of the work week universally to 40 hours, This tool can be useful for both parties linked to the employment relationship as it contributes to making work more efficient in less time.”.
It also highlights that the law will allow the worker to attend to necessary personal aspectsby taking advantage of the released hours that will later be compensated, generating a useful tool for the various situations that occur in the world of labor law.
However, he concludes, it must be adjusted to the particularity of the different activities, according to their collective agreements by branches or by companies that generate more beneficial regulations for the working party.
Source: Ambito
