The Executive Branch, through the Ministry of Labor, deposited this Thursday before the Senate of the Republic, the bill to modernize and update the Labor Code, which seeks to expand rights and improve relations between workers and employers.
Luis Miguel De Camps, Minister of Labor, highlighted that, after more than 100 work sessions of the Labor Advisory Council, the Legal Technical Table and tripartite meetings, the Dominican Republic will have a modern law, which will strengthen the rights of workers and employers, with greater generating capacity of jobs and increased productivity and competitiveness.
When delivering the document to the president of the SenateRicardo de los Santos, De Camps highlighted that with this new legislation the Ministry of Labor will also have greater capacity to comply with labor regulations.
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“What we are depositing here is the product of consensus between workers and employers. Now it is up to Congress to make what was agreed a reality and modify this law, which is more than 30 years old, to provide the country with modern regulations in line with the expectations of workers and employers,” the official highlighted.
De Camps declared that, with this labor reform, a step is taken towards modernizing the regulations, incorporating new rights, recognizing existing ones, expanding others and, above all, strengthening the Ministry of Labor so that it has greater capacity to enforce the law. labor legislation.
For the Ministry of Labor, present at the activity, Oliver Carreño, Legal Director^; Javier Suárez, Advisor on labor matters and for the Senate, Odalis Rafael Rodríguez Rodríguez, Senator for Valverde; Dagoberto Rodríguez Adames, Senator for Independence; Guillermo Lama, Senator for Bahoruco and Daniel Enrique De Jesús Rivera, Senator for Santiago.
