[Opinion] Congress Approves Law Proposing Benefits for Irregularly Dismissed Workers

After five years of doing electricity work in the coastal belt of La Guaira, Juan Manuel De Abreu claims to have been unfairly dismissed in December 2024. To date, the company has refused to pay him his social benefits. “I have gone to the Labour Inspectorate, where they calculated my liquidation, but the company Inesguaira does not want to pay me. I was fully engaged in my work, and for missing a single day I was fired without any consideration…

The plenary session of the Congress of the Republic of Peru approved, in a second vote, the opinion that proposes benefits for workers who have been irregularly dismissed.The rule had 54 in favour, 2 against and 27 abstentions.The text consists of seven articles and a final complementary provision, which authorizes the Ministry of Labour and Employment to carry out the updated calculation of the benefit of the financial compensation correspondin…