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COVID-19 and Labour Law: Argentina

Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 2020

Argentina has had a profound regulatory activity to counteract the coronavirus pandemic so far. Based on the experience of other countries, a strict lockdown was put into place at an early stage, which has been opening up slowly but gradually. Telework was recommended and a benefits program for affected businesses was implemented to ensure the payment of social security and salaries. A temporary prohibition of dismissals and suspensions was taken to protect employment and workers’ income. Regarding essential workers, COVID-19 has been deemed as an occupational disease for additional protection. Social protection was reinforced and an emergency family income for vulnerable groups was implemented, between other measures.

COVID 19 and Labour Law Argentina. Update 2 July 2020

Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 2020

Argentina has had a profound regulatory activity to counteract the coronavirus pandemic so far and its consequences, which appear to worsen as time goes by. Based on the experience of other countries, a strict lockdown was put into place at an early stage, which has been opening up slowly but gradually. Telework was recommended and a benefits program for affected businesses was implemented to ensure the payment of social security and salaries. A temporary prohibition of dismissals and suspensions was taken to protect employment and workers’ income. Regarding essential workers, COVID-19 has been deemed as an occupational disease for additional protection. Social protection was reinforced and an emergency family income for vulnerable groups was implemented, between other measures.

COVID-19 and Labour Law: Colombia

2020

Due to the global pandemic, Colombia has established a preventive social isolation with some exceptions. In order to protect workers' sources of income, it has adopted various measures to guarantee job stability, employees' labour income and informal workers’ rights, while considering the opinion of the Social Partners. Therefore, and despite that the Colombian government’s reaction has not completely covered the relevant ILO’s International Labour Standards yet, there is clear and daily action to adapt the norms and institutions in the country in order to thrive after the COVID-19 outbreak.

COVID-19 and Labour Law: Brazil

2020

Social distancing rules in Brazil in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulted in the paralysis of most economic activities. Measures were taken to provide support for maintenance of income and employment and to guarantee a minimum income for informal workers. Health and safety protections for healthcare and essential services workers received very minimal attention.

COVID-19 and Labour Law: Spain

Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 2020

The Spanish Government has approved a package of special measures to address the COVID-19 emergency. The measures are intended to protect employees, self-employed workers and companies. Despite the application of these provisions, the stoppage of activities has caused a significant growth in unemployment rates. Probably, in the next few weeks new complementary measures will be adopted.

Legal Protection of Labor Rights During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Jurnal Pembaharuan Hukum

Since the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic in Indonesia, which continues to grow and has an impact, not a few companies have gone bankrupt. Whether it's a small company, a medium-sized company or even a large corporation are affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19). This paper aims to find legal issues on labor right during Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Using the normative legal research, this paper analyzess some of regulation and legal government act to protect labor right who terminated (Pemutusan Hubungan Kerja/PHK) during Covid-19 pandemic. In the end, this paper finds that the government issued two program to solve PHK and protect labor rights, namely Pre-Works Card and Cash Incentive Program (Bantuan Langsung Tunai/BLT). It actively helps employee to create a new job and continue their daily life.

Some Aspects of Labour Law’s Protective Function at the Time of COVID-19

Studia Iuridica Lublinensia

The COVID-19 epidemic has had a substantial impact on Polish legislation since the beginning of 2020. The economic slowdown and the consequent fall in the state budget revenue are among the anticipated effects of the epidemic. As a result, provisions introducing lex specialis to the Labour Code and certain employment regulations specifying dissolution of employment relationships in some public administration organisations became part of the COVID-19 Act. The new legal construct comes down to extensive facilitation in the process of redundancies for employers dismissing their employees. The protective function of labour law provisions insofar as it upholds duration of the employment relationship is consequently restricted. Provisions of the COVID-19 Act in this respect are unacceptable. Each regulation should arise from objectively identified needs to legally govern social relationships and should not inflate laws or undermine citizens’ trust in legislation. The postulate of this leg...

COVID-19 in Uruguay: A survey of policy responses and their impact∗

2021

COVID-19 implied a huge shock with large economic consequences. In this paper we provide an evaluation of the impact of the social, economic and financial policy measures undertaken to ameliorate its negative consequences in Uruguay. We start by surveying the immediate impact of the shock and the main policy responses. Next, we take a threefold approach to evaluate their impact in GDP, inflation, inflation expectations, investment, consumption and firms’ financing. The results show that the policy response had a significant effect on mitigating the negative impact of the pandemic. JEL Codes: E50, E60.

COVID-19 and Labour Law: Republic of San Marino

2020

The Republic of San Marino, one of the smallest Countries in the world, introduced several emergency measures to contrast virus spread, supporting subordinate workers and families. The regular labour law measures have not been altered, with the exception of the employment retention schemes and income reductions.

COVID-19 and Labour Law: Panama

2020

Panamanian authorities acted quickly to address expected public health and workplace effects of the pandemic before the country saw its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Panama’s National Assembly enacted legislation to allow telework and the labor ministry issued a Circular on February 27, 2020 to provide guidance to employers and workers on how to prevent infection from COVID-19 in the workplace, followed by several Decrees establishing guidelines to deal with the impact of the pandemic on workplaces. The government of Panama issued a national-level state of emergency declaration on March 13, 2020. In addition to public health and workplace measures adopted in short succession in March 2020, the Panamanian government adopted a financial aid package to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic.