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“We have an unemployment rate that is the lowest since 2017, labor informality has been reduced and we have recovered the jobs lost during 2020”, assured the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres, in his speech at the 110th Conference Labor International. In addition, he mentioned the teleworking law and various subsidies that were implemented to maintain employment in Uruguay. “The pandemic unleashed very unfavorable circumstances that negatively affected the population, and, in particular, work, which generated an increase in pre-existing inequities and greater vulnerability of the weakest,” warned Mieres, in Geneva, Switzerland, during the conference that takes place between May 27 and June 11. The meeting is attended by delegates from governments, workers and employers from the 187 member states of the International Labor Organization (ILO). The Uruguayan leader highlighted that since March 2020 solidarity, cooperation and the search for equity have been reaffirmed as a path to recovery centered on the human being and in a fairer and more inclusive work. He explained that in our country, since the beginning of the health emergency, measures have been adopted to protect those most affected, protect workers and support the sustainability of companies. “The unemployment subsidy was used very intensely to support the income of workers and alleviate the situation of companies,” Mieres stressed, who highlighted that, in addition, specific subsidies were granted to informal workers and monotributistas. On the occasion, he valued the vaccination campaign that made possible a sustained reactivation of the occupation and allowed the end of 2021 with better indicators than before the pandemic. Likewise, he reported that at the end of 2021 the employment promotion law for vulnerable sectors was approved, in which subsidies were established for employers who hire young people, women, people over 45 years of age and with disabilities. The hierarch insisted on attention to the new modalities of labor relations as a consequence of technological development and exemplified with the regulation of the norm regarding teleworking. He also announced that a project will be presented to ensure the rights of those who work in companies through mobile applications. At the end of the conference, the director general of the ILO, the Englishman Guy Ryder, will step down after 10 years in office. In his place, the Togolese Gilbert Houngbo will assume. Presidency
