Crime and informality are two problems that have hit the country for a long time and to date no concrete actions have been taken to reduce the rates of these scourges; on the contrary, the numbers continue to increase. For this reason, representatives of the business sector and workers joined together in CADE 2024 to address these issues and provide some proposals to combat both problems.
One of the most emphatic was the president of the National Society of Industries, Felipe James, who pointed out that 51% of industrialists in Peru have been victims of a criminal act and 45% have had to increase their costs due to the wave of criminality. For this reason, he proposed military service accompanied by technical education for young people who do not study or work.
Regarding informality, he pointed out that in Peru there are 277 districts that do not register any formal workers in the private sector. For this reason, he considered that it is necessary to unify the tax regimes and provide greater labor flexibility.
NOT WORKING
One of the reasons why the numbers are not reducing is related to the lack of actions. The president of the Peruvian Chamber of Construction (Capeco), Jorge Zapata, pointed out in this sense that the State is not working because it is the politicians who have state control.
For the businessman, what is needed is to outline a route to reduce informality, but also for the opinions of civil society to be binding.
Meanwhile, the president of Confiep, Alfonso Bustamante Canny, pointed out that the work required does not fall on a single power of the State, but on all of them, as well as political will. In addition, he questioned that to date no actions have been taken to reduce informality and bureaucratic barriers, which impacts lack of social protection, beyond tax evasion.
And from the workers, the president of the Association for Civil Work and Construction (FTCCP), Luis Villanueva, claimed that since 2004 extortions have been recorded in construction, and 20 years later “nothing has been done.” “Many operate under the façade of a union organization and are not unions,” he warned.
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