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The president of the Private House Workers’ Union, Maria Cotal, rated on Cooperative the guild situation as “dramatic, disastrous, inhuman” after thousands lost their jobs amid the Covid-19 health crisis.
From the guild they revealed that 100 thousand domestic workers were terminated in these six months of pandemic, while other 40 thousand are with their contracts suspended.
This “means that these workers during this pandemic have not had any type of income, therefore, the situation that they live with their families it’s very dramatic“, indicated Cotal in conversation with What Remains of the Day.
“When the state of catastrophe is lifted, we are already perceiving that there will be a lot of worker laid offSo that those workers who are going to be fired, who for now are with suspension of contract, can have some type of social protection, “he said.
This Wednesday Congress dispatched the bill that incorporates workers from private homes in Unemployment Insurance benefits, both to the individual account and to the Solidarity Fund and establishes the rules for their financing and the access requirements.
Cotal said that “many years ago we were requesting the entry of our sector to the Unemployment Insurance” that, previously, they gave them “a million excuses and that now We realize that it was just that, excuses, that it was possible“he urged.
With this new legislation, they will also be able to access the Employment Protection Law, promoted by the Government in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences on society and the economy, and whose application was recently extended until March 2021 .
