Spanish
Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader reiterated this Monday that his government's position is that the right to severance pay be maintained in the reform of the Labor Code being studied by the National Congress.
"We do not agree with modifying severance pay, that is our position since the beginning of the discussions on the Labor Code reform (...) severance pay must remain as it is," said the ruler in response to a question during his Monday press conference at the National Palace.
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Business sectors have proposed that severance pay should be delivered in installments of several months to employees and not in the days established by the Labor Code. Some of these employers have brought up the issue of eliminating that right acquired by the workers, for another form of compensation. Unions, for their part, have reiterated time and again that they will not allow severance pay to be touched in the modifications to the Labor Code, which is practically very close to being approved. That issue is one of those that has generated the most discussions. Abinader also reiterated his opinion that the minimum wages in the public sector are "unworthy", although he mentioned that the government has improved in that aspect in other salary levels. The Head of State, on the other hand, pointed out that "changes are normal" within the Government and that, even, some of the positions that are vacant, due to the movements that he has made in the government train, do not need decrees.
