Oscar Caipo, president of the National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confiep), pointed out that the Government, through the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion, issues policies that make labor rights more precarious.
In that sense, it mentions that there are approximately 300,000 to 400,000 workers in the public sector who do not have all the social benefits in the State.
“The State is rather where it becomes precarious, we have more than 200,000 workers with a service contracting regime and the CAS regime that is spreading. So, we have approximately 300,000 to 400,000 workers who do not have all the social benefits in the State”, he said in an interview with RPP.
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“The government turns around and says that the private sector is becoming precarious and does not see what is happening in the public sector, where it is really becoming precarious and labor rights are not being complied with,” Caipo adds.
Along these lines, it indicates that measures are required to help micro and small businesses, which employ around 50% of formal and informal workers, to fully reactivate themselves and that requires regulations that are compatible with that reality.
However, the president of Confiep maintains that the regulations that the Government is proposing through the MTPE go in the opposite direction, and even with a level of double discourse.
“There is talk that outsourcing is taking place so that employment is not precarious when this is not the case. Employment in the private sector, which is predominantly formal, hires formal companies with workers on the payroll and all the benefits”, argues.
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“We hope that there will be more coherence in the Government and the Cabinet, because we have the measures issued by the MTPE, which are arbitrary, which have not gone through technical analysis and less through social dialogue, which is what is promoted by international agreements that Peru has with the ILO”, Caipo adds.
Finally, he points out that the MEF should recover the specific weight that the Cabinet and Governments have historically had, to ensure that the main regulations that come out of other ministries can have a positive impact on the economy and generate confidence.
