SANTIAGO.- The Association of Merchants and Industrialists of Santiago (ACIS), entity that brings together three thousand members in the region, yesterday rejected the modification of the Labor Code approved in the first reading by the Senate and called to rectify in a second reading assuming the agreed points agreed at the tripartite discussion table.
“We are worried that this piece has been approved in the Senate without taking into account the points agreed by the tripartite discussion table formed more than ten years ago,” said the president of the ACIS, Marcos Santana.
He recalled that the table is made up of three fundamental sectors that work in the modification: union, business and the government.
He called the legislators to put the heart in the consensus due to the debates of the agreement, in order to achieve a modern and updated labor code as demanded by the current situation.
During a meeting with the press in the business building, businessman Sandy Filpo, former president of the ACIS and representative of the institution at the discussion table for the modification to the Labor Law also spoke, who expressed his disagreement with what was approved outside the provisions of the consensus.
Filpo criticized that the senators mutilated the articles that had previously been agreed for the modification to the Labor Code, as is the figure of the Conciliation Judge, after highlighting its importance before the attacks of a “band” of lawyers that have been formed around the companies in alleged representation of the workers.
“Congress has unknown many of those approvals that were made of consensus and has changed it and the labor code has been mutilated around the agreed articles,” he said.
