The principle that led the labor authorities to work on updating and presenting the project for the new General Regulation of Labor Inspection they focus on the need to make inspections more efficient.
Thus he expressed it to The Economist the secretary of Work and Social WelfareLuisa María Alcalde, who explained that the fundamental reasons to advance in the changes to the regulation in principle is “to match the deadlines to the administrative procedure at the discretion of the courts.”
After a meeting with representatives of the business sector, the head of the job, explained that the need to present a new regulation is “to make inspections more efficient and easier for employers to comply with.”
In this regard, Lorenzo Roel, speaker of the Labor Committee of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), commented that the proposal presented by the businessmen is for there to be a differentiated treatment when applying the inspections.
Not only do you have to analyze the time they give to companies to correct any fault; it is also important that the size of the company and sector be taken into consideration,” he said.
Roel explained that the Government’s proposal is to give five days to correct possible irregularities; “The current regulation speaks of up to 90 days. There we made the request to the secretary that the same number of days be considered, but with the discretionary power of the Federal Inspection Directorate to grant those deadlines at the request of employers who have difficulty, in very particular cases, even to hire suppliers. and correct safety and hygiene measures.
The representative of the employer sector explained that they await the considerations made by the Directorate of Labor Inspection“Surely they will be superior to the project that came to modify to 5 days and we consider that if it were 45 days it would be a reasonable measure”.
He recognized that for the cases that are detected on Outsourcing“as it is prohibited, there if the sanctions are immediate”.
Meanwhile, Fernando Yllanes, a specialist at the Yllanes Law Firm, commented that it is not necessary to make changes to the regulations, in addition to maintaining the spirit of inspections in a sense to correct, rather than only establish fines.
“Frankly, it seems to me that under that vision, well, the regulation should not be modified, seeking to change these compliance deadlines, because then what we are going to do is that we are going to judicialize the inspections.”
The new regulation is expected to be finalized by the end of this month.
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