Approval of Law to install and maintain nurseries for employees' children.

Approval of Law to install and maintain nurseries for employees' children.

ROMERO PINEDA & ASOCIADOS, informs you that on May 31, 2018, the Legislative Assembly during a plenary session approved the “Special Law for the regulation and installation of nurseries for sons and daughters of workers”, applicable to private and public workers.

The Law was approved based on the mandate established in Article 42, paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the Republic, in force since 1983, taken up by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice when declaring “unconstitutionality by omission” by the Legislative Assembly, which imposed a period of 6 months to issue the regulations, which expired precisely on May 31, 2018.

The Law contains 15 articles and regulates the right of employees to daycare centers and places of custody for their sons and daughters, ranging in age from 4 months to 3 years, during the duration of their father or mother's work day.

According to the approved regulations, private sector employers will be obliged to comply with this benefit when they have 100 or more workers, having the power to define and implement the modalities through which they will comply with this law. Failure to comply carries fines between five to eight minimum wages.

For more information and legal assistance on the deadlines, modalities and conditions of compliance, please contact Beatriz Merino, Coordinator of the Labor Unit at (503) 2505-5555 or email bmerino@romeropineda.com

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