The Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (CUTI) received support from the Ministry of Labour to develop a regulatory framework for remote or non-face-to-face labour relations.
Teleworking is currently unregulated, although it is increasingly common for Uruguayan developers to work under this modality for companies abroad. For this reason, the president of CUTI, Álvaro Lamé, had defined the firms that benefit from this lack of regulation as "the Uber" of the software sector.
"A telework law is needed to modernise labour relations," Lamé told El País. He explained that in a recent meeting they agreed with the undersecretary of labour, Nelson Loustaunau, to generate a bill that provides guarantees "to industries and workers".
CUTI and the Head of State agreed on "the issues that should be considered" in the new regulatory framework for telework.
In turn, Lamé pointed out that legislation should be based on "a working relationship that already exists because in fact there are many people who telework", even though there is no definition of whether payment is made by the hour or by projects, nor the obligation to pay employer contributions. For all these reasons, formal employers consider teleworking as unfair competition.
On the difficulties of regulating technology-dependent and rapidly evolving forms of work, he said that the regulatory framework will contain "basic aspects" that will allow for "looking at experiences and improving".
The CUTI president explained that they aspire to "a simple law that enables teleworking and provides the conditions for companies to use it, without anything too special or too conflictive".
The aim is for the bill to "come out quickly, but it is an issue that still needs to be discussed with the actors," Lamé said.
Source El País
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