CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
© Inter Press Service (2023) — All Rights ReservedOriginal source: Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Could 04 (IPS) – The discount within the workweek just lately accepted by the Chilean Congress kinds a part of a development of working fewer hours and days that’s spreading in at the moment’s trendy economies, but additionally highlights how far behind different nations in Latin America are on this regard.
Latin America “has laws that’s lagging when it comes to working hours and it’s crucial that this be reviewed,” stated the director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for the Southern Cone of the Americas, Fabio Bertranou, after Chile’s new regulation was handed.
The workweek in Chile will probably be steadily diminished from 45 to 40 hours, by one hour a yr over the following 5 years, in keeping with the invoice {that a} jubilant President Gabriel Boric signed into regulation on Apr. 14.
“After a few years of dialogue and gathering assist, at the moment we will lastly rejoice the passage of this invoice that reduces working hours, a pro-family regulation geared toward bettering high quality of life for all,” stated Boric.
The regulation gives for the opportunity of working 4 days and taking three off per week, of working a most of 5 additional time hours per week, whereas granting exceptions in sectors equivalent to mining and transportation, the place as much as 52 hours per week will be labored, if the employee is compensated with fewer hours in one other work week.
Chile is thus aligning itself with its companions within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in a few of which, equivalent to Australia, Denmark and France, the workweek is lower than 40 hours, whereas in others, equivalent to Germany, Colombia, Mexico or the UK, the workweek is longer.
The vary in Latin America
In keeping with ILO knowledge, till the previous decade two nations within the area, Ecuador and Venezuela, had a authorized workweek of 40 hours, whereas, like Chile so far, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Guatemala have been within the vary between 42 and 45 hours.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay had a workweek of 48 hours.
In keeping with nationwide legal guidelines, the utmost variety of hours that individuals can legally work per week beneath extraordinary circumstances for particular causes is 48 in Brazil and Venezuela, and between 49 and 59 in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay.
In Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras the utmost is 60 or extra hours, and in El Salvador and Peru there’s merely no restrict.
However in apply individuals work lower than that, for the reason that regional common is 39.9 hours, greater than in Western Europe, North America and Africa (which vary between 37.2 and 38.8 hours), however lower than within the Arab world, the Pacific area and Asia, the place the typical ranges between 44 and 49 hours per week.
ILO figures confirmed that in 2016 in Latin America, male employees labored a mean of 44.9 hours per week and girls 36.3, 1.7 hours lower than in 2005 within the case of males and half an hour much less within the case of girls.
Amongst home employees, the lower was 3.3 hours amongst males and greater than 5 hours amongst ladies (from 38.1 to 32.9 hours per week), which is partly attributed to the truth that after 2005 laws to equate the workweeks of home employees with different employees made headway.
Well being and telework
A research by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO attributes the loss of life of some 750,000 employees every year to lengthy working hours – particularly individuals who work greater than 55 hours per week.
The research confirmed that in 2016, 398,000 employees died worldwide from stroke and 347,000 from ischemic coronary heart illness – illnesses which are triggered by extended stress related to lengthy hours, or by dangerous behaviors equivalent to smoking, consuming alcohol and consuming an unhealthy food regimen.
María Neira, director of the WHO’s Division of Atmosphere, Local weather Change and Well being, stated on this regard that “working 55 hours or extra per week poses a critical hazard to well being. It’s time for all of us – governments, employers and workers – to understand that lengthy working hours can result in untimely loss of life.”
However, the telework development boomed worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 23 million employees in Latin America and the Caribbean, primarily formal wage- earners with a excessive stage of schooling, steady jobs and in skilled and administrative occupations.
Entry to telework has been way more restricted for casual sector and self-employed employees, younger individuals, much less expert and lower-income employees, and girls, who’ve extra household tasks.
ILO Latin America skilled Andrés Marinakis acknowledged in an analysis that “normally, teleworkers have some autonomy in deciding the right way to set up their workday and their efficiency is evaluated primarily by means of the outcomes of their work reasonably than by the hours it took them to do it.”
However “a number of research have discovered that in lots of circumstances those that telework work slightly longer than normal; the boundaries between common and additional time hours are much less clear,” and this case is strengthened by the obtainable digital units and know-how, defined Marinakis from the ILO workplace in Santiago de Chile.
Which means “contact with colleagues and supervisors is feasible at any time and place, extending the workday past what is common,” which raises “the necessity to clearly set up a interval of disconnection that offers employees an efficient relaxation,” added the analyst.
The opposite face
Argentine labor activist Francisco Iturraspe advised IPS by phone that alternatively, sooner or later it seems that “non-human work, that of synthetic intelligence, can massively cut back employment and make 40 hours per week appear to be an immense quantity of labor.”
Iturraspe, a professor at the National University of Rosario in southeastern Argentina and a researcher on the nation’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, stated from Rosario that the discount in working hours “responds to standards typical of the nineteenth century, whereas within the twenty first century there’s the problem of assembly the necessity for technological growth and its affect on our nations.”
He argued that “to the extent that plentiful and low-cost labor is out there, and folks should work longer hours, enterprise house owners want much less funding in know-how, which curbs growth.”
However, alternatively, Iturraspe pressured that funding in applied sciences equivalent to synthetic intelligence reduces the price of producing items and companies, evoking the thesis of zero marginal price set out by U.S. economist Jeremy Rifkin, creator of “The Finish of Work” and different books.
This interprets into a discount within the workforce wanted to supply and distribute items and companies, “maybe by half in keeping with some economists, a Copernican shift that might lead us to a scenario of mass unemployment.”
The hunt to scale back the workday walks alongside that razor’s edge, “with the hope that the discount of working time can provide working human beings new methods of dealing with life,” Iturraspe stated.
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