LAW | There is a proposal to amend
chapter v Labour Code
Preventing Occupational Accidents
San Pedro Sula. a series of profound analysis history, doctors,
political, economic and legal environment should be the proposal to
modify the entire chapter v code work related to industrial accidents.
The proposal was delivered on 26 April this year the president of the
National Congress, Roberto Micheletti and amend the prohibitions and
penalties for breach of the rules of hygiene and security within
companies.
It also would regulate the table of diseases and valuations of
compensation for occupational accidents, which dates from 1959, which
provides less than 45 fractions, but it is intended to expand to nearly
2200 diseases and accidents.
Favorece
For Maria Luisa Regalado, the Collective of Women of Honduras, Codemuh
enlargement of the tables is due to diseases generated by new lines of
production that have been seized by Honduras globalization of the
economy.
"The proposal aims to prevent businesses risk of accidents and their
workers. Entrepreneurs won by reducing illness and accidents. That
generate less disability compensation and improved productivity of its
workers ", reflects Regalado. The female leader explained that the state
also will be helped by the exaggerated population of sick workers as a
product of extensive working hours, high goal production and demand for
impeccable quality. Research Codemuh in the maquila reveal a figure of
92.4 per hundred workers affected by skeletal muscle disorder, which
results in damage to the spine, neck, wear and tear of the rotator cuff,
tendinitis and even hernias in humanity.
Forfeited undervalued
The Labor Code or dysfunction valued the loss of muscles, organs and
bones of the workers based on 620 days' minimum wage and depending on
the damage ruled by specialist doctors. It was the event that an
operator, working in front of his machine, lost one eye on his face when
he rebounded identification card. According to the Labour Code, the
monetary compensation that the harm caused him was 35 percent, but in
reality she lost all sight of that eye. By dismantling body, the code
identifies a compensation of 65 to 80 percent. When you've lost four
fingers of one hand, the thumb conversation, the employee will be
compensated between 40 and 50 percent of what caused the damage. When
valuing employee suits him more, but at the smaller employer. That is a
dilemma between the two sides. Therefore, Codemuh proposed that the
compensation ranges between not understand, but defined in ua single
figure to avoid prejudicing the worker.
More Preventive
Pedro Pablo Perdomo, the unit responsible for Risk Education of the
Regional Labour believes that the table of work-related accidents this
outdated and needs to change based on current jobs. "It is correct to
broaden the base of 620 days on which the awards are valued in order to
improve the rates for workers," says professional Perdomo believes that
the worker is injured to compensate with little money to the loss of one
hand his body. "Companies, to perceive that must make more economic
outlays, from now on take more preventive measures to reduce accidents
and occupational diseases."
Requests Compensation Chords to Reality
According to labor lawyer Deisy Nohemi Reconco, reforms to chapter v be
favourable, because today's technology is not the same as when I believe
the existing Labour Code.
"In the work of non abounded before the harmful tamo, is caused less
deafness and less impact on the view that today and not ventilated labor
law," said the expert. The loss of a member or the disruption of the
health workers should not have price, but the worker should be accorded
a real value to make ends meet and support his family, describes the
lawyer.
