Minister spokesperson, with dancing to the beat of cumbia Camila Vallejo and Labor and Social Welfare, Janet Zara, Both PCs celebrated the approval of the bill last April, which reduces the weekly working day to 40 hours.
The initiative was an old demand promoted by Vallejo and the Communist deputy carol cariola,
That issue was used by the government as a spear to gain citizen approval and show legislative results.
He President Boric announced the law To thunderous applause from his ministers. “I do not have any I doubt we can build a better Chile where workers live with dignity.”
126 thousand employees were laid off during the first year of BORIC
however, Those who are not able to dance for joy like Jara and Vallejo are the 126 thousand workers who became unemployed during the first year of Boric’s government,
This is because according to data from the Institute for National Statistics (INE) there were 744,000 unemployed in March 2022 – a rate of 7.8%, with the figure rising to 870,000 unemployed in March this year (8.8%).
that gauge It is not the only one that shows the serious deterioration of the labor market during the administration of Minister Zara,
This group is made up of 2 lakh 472 thousand workers. A year ago this figure was 2 lakh 398 thousand. In other words, there has been an increase of 73,000 in the number of informal workers.
Slowdown in salaried employment and sharp rise in civil servants according to INE
Another relevant aspect of this first year is that according to INE figures, 94,000 new public jobs would have been created. However, Depres issued a report saying that no such increase has taken place.
In contrast, the number of wage earners in the private sector grew by barely 52,000 people last year, bearing the brunt of the slowdown.
“While the creation of formal salaried jobs in the private sector is slowing rapidly, the creation of salaried jobs in the public sector is accelerating,” the director of the UDP’s Observatory of the Economic Context (OCEC) wrote on Twitter. John Bravo,
Consult an economist arthur claro It also pointed out that the destruction of jobs in the private sector is attributed to the “weakness of the private labor market”.
Tomas Flores: “The sharp decline in employment is very worrying”
economist of freedom and development, Thomas Flowers told the bookcase that “the strong uncertainty during the first year of the government of President Borić is very worrying.”
“Economic growth and quality employment are the two main means of generating progress and social mobility. in both, Government draws a red note, It is important that the market is given the proper signals to reactivate both indicators to investors and employers”, says Flores.
