Yesterday, Wednesday 25 June, the National Business Council (Conep) accused the government administrations over the past decade for being responsible for the large percentage of informal workers in the country (65%). Conep president Manuel Diez Cabral said that the administrations of the past ten years, headed by the same party that currently holds the reins of the state (PLD), has been more concerned about creating public employment than about conducting the structural reforms that companies need in order to create job vacancies that the people require. During his contributions as the keynote speaker at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmChamDR) Monthly Luncheon, the business leader recalled that since 2004, for each formal job created in the country, there are 14 informal positions, and he maintained that the state generated 70% of those formal jobs during that same period.
Referring to the need for a pact on formal employment that includes several structural reforms, Diez Cabral said that instead of correcting the causes that have reduced the capacity of business to create formal employment that the country needs, the state has concentrated on increasing public sector jobs and increasing social welfare programs and subsidies. “Public decision makers have been more agile in creating new state agencies than in promoting changes in the public policies that control the most sensitive areas of our economy,” stated the representative of one of the country’s most influential business organizations.
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