Authorities and the CPC propose to defer work entry hours

With almost all the communes in the Metropolitan Region and many in regions without quarantine, the government in conjunction with the Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC) and a group of mayors have already begun to outline measures for the return to face-to-face work .

This Saturday at an activity at the headquarters of the CPC, they announced the entry to work in deferred hours as one of the main measures, this with a focus mainly on commerce, construction and banking.

The president of the CPC, Juan Sutil, stressed that the main thing for companies is to protect the health of workers. “Considering the health crisis, the diversity of the productive sectors and the need for many people to return to work and be supporters of their families, the best way for employers to contribute is to have flexibility both in their entry hours, as in the form of access and the way of working, whether teleworking and face-to-face ”, he stated.

In detail, the proposal proposes that the construction sector can start its work at 7:00 am, “a time when there is little traffic and thus workers can return to their homes earlier.” The industry, for its part, “has its work blocks and can leave at 8:00 am, maintaining its particularities and protection measures that it has implemented since the beginning of the pandemic,” Sutil said.

Meanwhile, with respect to the hours of public service banks, it would remain from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., seeking to minimize queues, privilege remote channels and maintain remote work over 50% in central areas that are not support of the physical network . Regarding public and private offices and services, it is proposed that they make their entry hours more flexible between 9:00 and 10:00 in the morning.

In the case of commerce, “it has and must maintain its peculiarities of staggered schedules, without establishing a single schedule,” said the president of the CPC, and stressed that “since the first days of the pandemic, commerce has done everything that it is within their reach to stop the contagion curve and has allowed citizens to have the products they need ”.

The Minister of Labor, María José Zaldívar, stated that “we are seeing a reactivation of many communes in the Metropolitan Region, but also of many regions and here the important thing is to be very aware that we have to advance step by step to be able to recover our spaces, our families and our work and that must be done in a clear and very responsible way ”.

Along these lines, the Secretary of State pointed out that “the most important thing is the health of the people, the workers, their families and all the people who are related, therefore there can be nothing that is above that. In this sense, the measures that are being adopted are being taken seriously, rigorously and must be evaluated ”.

Zaldívar stated that “we have to take time to see if this change in the schedules is a corresponding change, if it is successful to consolidate it, and if not make the modifications, but with the same collaborative atmosphere, of conversation that occurred in this context, in which all the branches of the CPC, together with the mayors and the government, sought the best mechanism to be able to fulfill this objective ”.

Finally, the minister specified that “we continue to prioritize and we have proposed that, as far as possible, tasks be carried out through remote work, that the working groups distance themselves in order to maintain greater traceability.”