The CNational Federation of Dominican Workers (CNTD) suggested that the union movement join forces so that in 2022 its wishes to achieve a new social security law and a new labor code come true.
After 20 years of its approval, the social security law became legislation that in practice has served to increase the fortunes of the financial sector, it has not fulfilled the supreme objective of universality, and the internal groups that dispute the benefits that it procreates prevent benefiting the most deprived and vulnerable sectors.
“Law 87-01 was conceived so that businessmen and financial groups apply the win-win principle, taking advantage of deliberately conceived weaknesses that not only affect workers but also the majority of the population.
The profit margins of the AFPs, higher than the regional average, the precarious amounts stipulated for pensions, and the opposition of these entities to lower their profit margins, is an injustice against the population that supports them with their contributions.
While the ARS seek to earn everything as intermediaries by limiting the services they offer to the insured, and offering medicines for ten thousand pesos a year.
That is why the social security law must be transformed into its three pillars: health, pensions and occupational risks.
Regarding this legislation, the CNTD recalled that the union movement’s proposal to modify Law 87-01 is in Congress, and that once the year begins they will discuss it again with legislators.
Regarding the demand for a new labor code, he argued that it is about adopting that legislation to the social and economic development that the country experiences due to the advancement of technology.
The CNTD said that as soon as the debates on this law begin, it will defend acquired rights and seek new achievements for workers.
He reported that he has already started contacts with the other trade union centrals so that the proposal to declare 2022 as the year of a new social security law and a new labor code is theirs.
