This Wednesday Senators Fabiola Campillay (AD), Yasna Provoste (DC) and Loreto Carvajal (PPD) presented a bill to extend the right to a nursery for working mothers and fathers.
The initiative aims to go to the aid of Chilean families and the care of girls and boys, since according to Senator Carvajal “we need a cultural change where equality of rights and duties between fathers and mothers is a reality depending on the children , girls and adolescents in the country”.
Along the same lines, Senator Campillai added that the main idea of this project is “in response to the national reality in which progress has been made in parental co-responsibility, which implies that all companies with more than twenty workers, regardless of whether they are men or women should have solutions in terms of nurseries”.
Regarding the discrimination that has historically existed between men and women, Senator Provoste declared that discrimination based on gender should be left behind. One of them is that according to data from the Chilean labor survey (Encla) only companies that have twenty or more female workers have a nursery, which means a disincentive to hiring women, since currently 11.7% of Companies in Chile have 20 or more women hired, which corresponds to 76.5% of the workers who have children under two years of age.
“In other words, 88.3% limit the number to 19 to avoid being forced by article 203 of the Labor Code, which is a reality that must be counteracted so that the incorporation of women into work is complete,” the senators pointed out. .
Finally, Senator Loreto Carvajal commented that nowadays more and more parents are separating, which means that in many cases women have to work more. As for parents, the legislator added that they do not have the same facilities in terms of access to a nursery, since the law establishes that only those cases that have the care of their son or daughter by court ruling should benefit.
