Honduran Congress Acts
for Workers
The National Congress of
Honduras is pushing a
bill law project to
extend the right to pay
working assistance from
15 to 25 years, Honduran
Congress President
Roberto Micheletti
informed on Wednesday.
Micheletti said the
Honduran Labor Code only
recognizes 15 years to
pay working assistance,
whether or not the
worker has worked 40
years for a determined
entity or employer.
The initiative will be
addressed by the
legislature with a tax
reform bill to increase
the exemption base to
8,500 dollars, which
will benefit 400,000
workers in the country.
Micheletti added that
the initiative will
oblige employers to pay
50 percent of the
working assistance when
the worker voluntarily
quits and, if approved
by midyear, will go into
force in 2008.
Political analysts do
not dismiss the
possibility that these
measures are a political
strategy by the
Micheletti, who recently
began campaigning with a
view to the next
elections. |
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