LABOR BENEFITS
Familiar advantage
The Labor Code (Art. 261° and following) establishes that all worker must right to perceive an allocation equivalent to 5% of the minimum wage by each married son, extramarried or adoptive, until a legal system of compensation for the familiar allocations is implanted on the base of the social insurance.
Present value: G. 39,109 (on equal minimum wage to G, 782,186) by each son until the age of 17 years.
The familiar advantage does not comprise of the wage to the effects of the payment of the Christmas bonus and in the case that the wage of the worker exceeds 200% (two hundred percent) the legal minimum, the right is extinguished to
Perceive familiar advantage. The Familiar Allocation is unattachable and it does not comprise of the wage to the effects of the calculation of the contribution to IPS.
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Christmas bonus
The Labor Code establishes a complementary annual remuneration or Christmas bonus, equivalent to 12th part of the remunerations of the year during the year calendar in favor of the worker in all concept (wage, extraordinary hours, commissions, other income), which will be paid before the 31 of December, or at the moment at which the labor relation finishes if it happens before that time of the year.
Form of Calculation: Extra Sum of all the perceived one for wage, hours, commissions (everything on which IPS was contributed) divided between twelve.
The Christmas bonus will be paid before the 31 of December or at the moment at which it finishes the labor relation in which case is made the proportional calculation to the worked time.
The Christmas bonus is unattouchable.
Rest by Maternity
The pregnant women must right to suspend the work during the 6 (six) weeks previous to the probable date of the childbirth, and she will not be allowed him to work during the 6 (six) later weeks to the childbirth.
The worker will have to present/display a medical certificate issued or visa by the Institute de Previsión Social (IPS) or the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social , in which she indicates the probable date of childbirth.
During the (three) months previous to the childbirth, the women will not carry out any work that demands considerable physical effort.
Once the employer has been notified of the pregnancy of the worker and during the rests by maternity, he is null the advance warning and the dismissals on the part of the employer.
Vacations
All workers has right to a period of vacations remunerated after every year of continuous work to the service of the same employer, whose minimum duration will be:
- For workers of up to 5 years of antiquity, 12 working days;
- For workers with more than 5 years of antiquity and up to 10 years of antiquity, 18 working days;
- For workers with more than 10 years of antiquity, 30 working days.
The minors of 18 (ten and eight) years of age will have right to 30 days.
The wage must be paid in advance at the beginning of the vacations and the amount will be calculated of conformity to the wage perceived by the worker at the time of enjoyment of vacations.
In case of completion of the contract without to have made use of the caused vacations, the right will be compensated in money on the basis of the present wage.
The vacations are not acumulables, nevertheless at the request of the worker will be able to be accumulated by 2 (two) years if it does not harm the interests of the company.
