Focus

Chile clears the way for 40-hour work week

12 Apr 2023 02:46pm
Lawmakers in Chile have approved legislation to reduce the country's working week hours from 45 to 40, reported German news agency dpa. - Photo: AFP
Lawmakers in Chile have approved legislation to reduce the country's working week hours from 45 to 40, reported German news agency dpa. - Photo: AFP
A
A
A

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Lawmakers in Chile have approved legislation to reduce the country's working week hours from 45 to 40, reported German news agency dpa.

Left-wing President Gabriel Boric will sign the bill into law in the coming days, a government statement said late Tuesday.

This will make Chile the second country in South America, after Ecuador, to introduce the working hours recommended by the International Labour Organisation.

"Today we can finally celebrate the approval of this project that reduces working hours - a pro-family project that aims at the good living of all," Boric wrote on Twitter.

The original legislative initiative had been introduced in 2017 by current Cabinet member Camila Vallejo and lawmaker Karol Cariola of the Communist Party.

Workers' rights are a key pillar of the programme with which Boric, 37, took office as the South American country's youngest-ever president on March 11, 2022. - BERNAMA

Related Articles:
Chile
work week
40 hours
More Like This
Some of the appellants at the Federal Court, today, for the mention of their appeal against the High Court's decision over their conviction and three-year prison sentence for injuring UPNM Cadet Officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain seven years ago. - Photo by Bernama
Some of the appellants at the Federal Court, today, for the mention of their appeal against the High Court's decision over their conviction and three-year prison sentence for injuring UPNM Cadet Officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain seven years ago. - Photo by Bernama
World Five former UPNM students withdraw appeal over conviction, jail sentence for injuring Zulfarhan
The five appellants withdrew the appeal as it was now academic and no longer relevant as they have completed their three-year prison sentence, which was served in 2021.
Screenshots from a video of Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations (UN) Datuk Ahmad Faisal Muhamad's speech at the 51st plenary meeting of the Tenth Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly. - Photo: Youtube
Screenshots from a video of Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations (UN) Datuk Ahmad Faisal Muhamad's speech at the 51st plenary meeting of the Tenth Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly. - Photo: Youtube
World Malaysia's UN representative urges member states to resist pressure threatening Middle East peace
By SHARIFAH SHAHIRAH
14 May 2024 12:27pm
SHAH ALAM - Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations (UN) Datuk Ahmad Faisal Muhamad said all member states should not succumb to the pressure exerted by those who seek to undermine peace in the Middle East. He called on all member states to be united and support the effors...
Graffiti reading "free Gaza" is painted on a map next to an encampment protesting the University of Washington's ties to Israel and Boeing at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, May 12, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Graffiti reading "free Gaza" is painted on a map next to an encampment protesting the University of Washington's ties to Israel and Boeing at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, May 12, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
World Celebrities face digital backlash over Gaza silence
Taylor Swift, Drake and many more have become targets of the "Block Out 2024" movement.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before departing Manhattan criminal court on May 13, 2024, in New York where he is on trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs. - Photo by AFP
Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before departing Manhattan criminal court on May 13, 2024, in New York where he is on trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs. - Photo by AFP
World 'Do it': Former fixer Cohen testifies he lied for Trump
Michael Cohen, once Trump's attack dog, gave calm, unemotional evidence against him, occasionally glancing at Trump who sat slouched in his chair at the defendant's table.