“Peru's progressive forces question government decision”, 15^th April 2020

…Peru's government decision to allow companies to suspend their workers for three months due to the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis, was rejected Tuesday by progressive political forces in the country.

Although the government alleges that suspensions will have to be previously justified and that it will not allow abuses, the leader of the New Peru Movement (NP), Veronika Mendoza, and the Broad Front's caucus (FA) criticized the measure.

'It is not fair that workers pay the costs of the crisis with their savings as the government saves banks with a significant financial injection,' Mendoza said, referring to Vizcarra.

Thus, she mentioned that the government authorized to support workers in the face of the crisis the withdrawal of funds from unemployment and retirement insurance, as well as basic subsidies for the poor and independent workers.

Meanwhile, the FA legislative caucus condemned that the measure has been taken without having being tackled in the National Labor Council, a forum for dialogue among the government, trade unions and the National Confederation of Private Entrepreneurial Institutions (CONFIEP).

The FA's bench denounces that large companies grouped in CONFIEP take advantage of the health emergency to impose their agenda to cut labor rights, without the opposition of the Minister of Labor Sylvia Caceres, or President Vizcarra…