The term digital nomad is not a concept derived from the pandemic, as it had already been coined in 1997 by the authors of the book of the same name, Tsugio Makimoto and David Manners. However, it did become popular with the pandemic. Digital nomads are people who choose to work outside their home countries…
Article 63 of the Social Security Law of 1982, in accordance with the provisions of article 83 of the Labor Code of 1945, established the definition of occupational accident as death or any organic injury or functional disturbance, permanent or transitory, immediate, or subsequent, produced by the sudden action of an external cause arising out…
It is important to begin by emphasizing that the limitation of the ordinary workday is a right that cannot be waived and that, in the case of El Salvador, there is even the peculiarity that these limits are expressly determined by the imperative Constitutional Norm, which makes them even more difficult to modify than if…
By: Carlos Rodriguez El Salvador ratified Convention 111 of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 1995, which in its Art 5, establishes that special measures for the protection of vulnerable people, including people with disabilities, are not discriminatory; therefore, it has enacted a diverse legislation that tends to apply these favorable measures for people with…
In the absence of publication in the Official Gazette La Gaceta, the “Law of the Self-Employed Worker” is already a reality. The new regulation is composed of only two articles and two transitory articles; however, its content brings substantial changes in favor of thousands of independent workers. The first article of the law defines an…
By: Susan Perdomo From the labor field, the needs of commerce have generated the creation of schemes for the rendering of services other than the one known as “employer – employee” relationship. These needs of the market have allowed the emergence of other figures such as intermediaries, contractors, and/or outsourcing, including the so-called employment agencies….
By: Bertha Xiomara Ortega The era of technology is here to stay and to permeate all areas of life, including labor relations. The management power of the employer in this era, and in many cases, is exercised through new technological tools that allow remote surveillance and provide an amount of information and/or data that are…
The Agreement in question, published on January 16, 2023, repeals Agreement 1123 of the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan Social Security Institute, which regulated the registration of employers. As a consequence of this repeal, as of January 16, 2023, the exemption enjoyed by salaries paid to legal representatives registered in the IGSS and who…
By: Lionel Aguilar Our Labor Law, materialized in the Labor Code that entered into force in Guatemala as of May 1st, 1947, introduces, in its sections, different principles that every Judge must observe when resolving controversies that arise between employers and their workers. Such principles, especially the “principle of reality and objectivity”, in our opinion,…
During the 9038th Board of Directors meeting of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) held on June 20, 2019, it was agreed to implement a triennial increase of half a percentage point for the Disability, Old Age, and Death Insurance Program (IVM). This increase took effect in January 2020 and will be incrementally applied…
On Monday, October 24, 2022, the National Wage Council (CNS) agreed on a wage increase for minimum wages in the private sector, effective January 1, 2023. The increase will be 6.62% for all salary categories. An additional 2.33% will be granted to domestic service salaries. Likewise, the adjustments determined in the salary homologation process will…
By means of the adoption and approval of the Forgiveness Regulation for the application of Law 10.232 called “Law authorizing forgiveness for the formalization and collection of social charges”, the CCSS will forgive the amounts corresponding to fines, surcharges and interest to both employers and self-employed workers who request the application of the established procedure….