Chile Takes Historic Step Towards Accessibility with Groundbreaking ‘Silla Law’ Approval

MEXICO CITY.- The Chamber of Deputieswith the vote in favor of all parliamentary factions, approved to reform the Federal Labor Law to force employers to provide chairs to your workers so that they have breaks newspapers.

Approved with 476 votes and transferred to the Senate of the Republic For its analysis, the Chair Law considers prohibiting employers from forcing their workers to remain standing during the entire working day or preventing them from taking a seat periodically during the performance of their duties.

The full Senate endorsed the Silla Law on February 20, however, the minutes remained frozen in the Chamber of Deputies.

“I want to thank the parliamentary groups that have signed this initiative. I want to express that this initiative was approved in the Senate, proposed by Patricia Mercadoand she and I push for it to be approved, because even though we approved it unanimously in the Senate of the Republic, here, in the co-legislator It was not approved and was archived and discarded,” explained Ricardo Monreal.

Unanimously, the #LeySilla 🪑in the plenary session @Mx_Diputados and takes turns @senadomexicano to continue the legislative process 🙌🏽

I want to remember that this proposal arose from workers who expressed what they were experiencing due to lack of… pic.twitter.com/GEO3SpW6qv

— Patricia Mercado (@Pat_MercadoC) October 2, 2024

Silla Law: What obligations will employers have?

The reform also contemplates ban employers what they force their workers to remain standing during the entire working day and prohibit them from taking a seat periodically during the performance of their duties.

As well as providing the sufficient number of seats or chairs with backs available to all workers in the service sectors, commerce and similar workplaces, for the execution of their duties or for periodic rest during the working day.

In a transitional article, the initiative establishes that companies will have a period of 180 days from the entry into force of the decree to adapt their internal regulations to comply with what is established.

Read: What is the Silla Law? Initiative in favor of workers who work on their feet

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