The Ministry of Labor made modifications to the Productive Recovery and Support Program (Repro), and enabled evaluation visits to companiesthrough resolution 1389/2022 published in the Official Gazette.
Among the main modifications, it was established that the workers dependent on the employer subjects who enter the Program should not receive a total remuneration higher than three times the current Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary, instead of four SMVM as it was until now. .
Also, a time limit was set in relation to the prohibition of dismissals without just causewhich did not exist before, and which now remains that the applicant companies must not have carried out in a period of six months prior to enrollment in the Program.
On the other hand, the resolution empowered the Repro Coordination to defer the evaluation and liquidation period, as well as to collect additional data that allows expanding or verifying that provided by the requesting companies, and ordering the carrying out of evaluation visits to the headquarters of their establishments, in order to ratify, rectify or expand information that is considered relevant for the consideration of requests for access as well as permanence or continuity in the Program by companies.
In this sense, the regulations determined that when the payroll proposed by the companies is made up of more than 500 workers, the Coordination will have the power to request sectoral reportsand may approve the granting of the benefit, either granting it to part or all of the requested payroll.
Likewise, the Coordination and the Undersecretary of Supervision were instructed to carry out the monitoring of companies made up of more than 500 workers, who make the request to access the Repro or continue in it, as well as during their stay.
The Repro aims to establish a payroll subsidy for companies that enter itsince the benefit consists of an individual monetary allocation to be paid to the male and female workers, on account of the payment of the remunerations in charge of the employers attached to the Program.
The Program establishes that in order for employers in the private sector to be able to access the anticipated benefit, they must prove that they are facing a critical situation according to the evaluation of a set of patrimonial, financial and economic indicators.
The amount of the monetary allocation is equivalent to 50% of the total remuneration up to a maximum of 50% of the value of the minimum vital and mobile salary, which this month is $51,200; in October it will be $54,550; and in November it will increase to $57,900.
To receive the allowance, male and female workers must not receive a total remuneration greater than three times the minimum wage, and it is granted for three months.
For its part, the employer can access the Program for a maximum of two periods, consecutive or not, within three years counted from the beginning of the first period granted.
