Minister of Labor José Ramon Fadul told reporters from El Nacional that given the constant violations to the labor law in regards to foreign employment in construction and agriculture, the time may have come to change the law instead. The labor law in the Dominican Republic allows for a company to contract only 20% foreign labor. But it is not unusual for the employment in farm and construction projects to be the reverse, 20% Dominican and 80% foreign.
Despite the observation about it being time to change the law, during his interview with Danny Alcantara, Oscar Medina and Luisin Mejia on the Hoy Mismo on Color Vision, Channel 9, the Minister called for the Migration Agency to act with greater vigor in regulating foreigners in the country.
Several sectors, including the labor unions, have called on the government to apply the norms established by the labor law.
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El Nacional
24 August 2017
