The executive director of the National Business Council (Conep), Cesar Dargam said that the Dominican Labor Code (Law 16-92) needs an overhaul. He said it is obsolete and does not address the work and job markets as they are today.
Dargam suggests the Labor Code needs to be updated to incorporate agreements reached under the International Labor Organization and several reforms that have resulted from local jurisprudence.
Moreso, Dargam says there are new work modalities that are in demand today that didn’t exist in 1993. He said the Labor Code also calls for complicated red tape that brings uncertainty to the sector.
“We are in an economy that is 51% informal and with a legal framework that no longer applies to these times,” he said.
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Labor Code
10 September 2019