Cuba: Draft of New Labor Code Opens for Consultation Starting Today

With the input of Cuban workers, both state and non-state, including those who collaborate and work in missions abroad. The draft Labor Code will be enriched and open for consultation starting today throughout the country.

Pilot assemblies in each territory will open this political and democratic process this Monday. The most important for the labor movement this year, as it will allow for new, modern labor legislation that guarantees labor rights in a dynamic and diverse environment.

As Jesús Otamendi Campos, Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), stated a few days ago, this update has ceased to be an aspiration and has become an ongoing legislative process. Deeply participatory and with solid legal and social foundations.

Until November 30th, the draft, published in tabloid form and digitally on various websites, will be analyzed in workplaces in dedicated meetings. In which all possible criteria, suggestions, and concerns will be collected.

Every worker, employer, and citizen has the opportunity to express their opinion, propose, and directly contribute to the creation of a law that will impact their working lives, stated Osnay Miguel Colina Rodríguez, president of the Organizing Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Cuban Workers’ Central Union (CTC in the Spanish acronym).

According to Ariel Fonseca Quesada, deputy minister of the Ministry of Social Security (MTSS), this is not just about modifying the existing code, approved in 2013. But also about discussing a completely new text, given the substantive impact many of its articles have in the current context.

In a recent Roundtable on Cuban television, both Fonseca and Colina explained that the process of updating the Code has focused on five general aspects: the principles governing labor relations, access to employment, worker guarantees, recognition of new forms of employment, and expanding its scope.

With information from CNA

Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez

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