Impacto económico de la legislación laboral en Venezuela

On May 7th of 2012, Organic Law on Work, male workers and female workers —Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y Trabajadores (LOTTT)— was published in Official Gazette of the Degree with Rank, Value and Force in Venezuela. The aim of this law is “to protect the work as a social fact and guara...

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Main Authors: María Candelaria González, Yajaira Bracho de Hernández, Julio Villasmil S
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Language:English
Published: Konrad Lorenz Fundación Universitaria 2015-06-01
Series:Suma de Negocios
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Online Access:http://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-suma-negocios-208-articulo-impacto-economico-legislacion-laboral-venezuela-S2215910X15000075
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description On May 7th of 2012, Organic Law on Work, male workers and female workers —Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y Trabajadores (LOTTT)— was published in Official Gazette of the Degree with Rank, Value and Force in Venezuela. The aim of this law is “to protect the work as a social fact and guarantee the labor rights, creators of the produced social wealth and the leading subjects of the processes of education and work to achieve the aims of the democratic state and social rights and justice…”. To achieve these aims changes were established that apparently benefit the employees and place them in a better situation, in respect to the 1997 law, and on the benefits of the entrepreneur. In this sense, the aim of the present article is to analyze the economic impacts that this law has had on both the employee and the entrepreneur, using a review of the literature and journals. It was observed that the most significant changes were in the reduction of the workday, the calculation and the retroactivity of the social benefits, the elimination of outsourcing, and other less significant changes such as, pre and postnatal period extension, the calculation of the overtime, the elimination of the outstanding performance bonus, among others. It was shown, without any doubt, that this law is highly punitive for the entrepreneurs and very protective for the employees. All these came along with a decrease in the Economically Active Population (PEA), with a decrease in the gross domestic product and, thus, productivity. And now with the highest levels of inflation in Latin America, this is an unflattering landscape for companies in Venezuela.
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spelling doaj.art-499c5dff7a114356b44ba0ac83d2577c2022-12-22T01:10:26ZengKonrad Lorenz Fundación UniversitariaSuma de Negocios2215-910X2215-910X2015-06-016131728http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sumneg.2015.08.002Impacto económico de la legislación laboral en VenezuelaMaría Candelaria González0Yajaira Bracho de Hernández1Julio Villasmil S2Universidad del ZuliaUniversidad del ZuliaUniversidad del ZuliaOn May 7th of 2012, Organic Law on Work, male workers and female workers —Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y Trabajadores (LOTTT)— was published in Official Gazette of the Degree with Rank, Value and Force in Venezuela. The aim of this law is “to protect the work as a social fact and guarantee the labor rights, creators of the produced social wealth and the leading subjects of the processes of education and work to achieve the aims of the democratic state and social rights and justice…”. To achieve these aims changes were established that apparently benefit the employees and place them in a better situation, in respect to the 1997 law, and on the benefits of the entrepreneur. In this sense, the aim of the present article is to analyze the economic impacts that this law has had on both the employee and the entrepreneur, using a review of the literature and journals. It was observed that the most significant changes were in the reduction of the workday, the calculation and the retroactivity of the social benefits, the elimination of outsourcing, and other less significant changes such as, pre and postnatal period extension, the calculation of the overtime, the elimination of the outstanding performance bonus, among others. It was shown, without any doubt, that this law is highly punitive for the entrepreneurs and very protective for the employees. All these came along with a decrease in the Economically Active Population (PEA), with a decrease in the gross domestic product and, thus, productivity. And now with the highest levels of inflation in Latin America, this is an unflattering landscape for companies in Venezuela.http://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-suma-negocios-208-articulo-impacto-economico-legislacion-laboral-venezuela-S2215910X15000075LOTTTVenezuelaLabor legislationWorkdayOutsourcingSocial benefits
spellingShingle María Candelaria González
Yajaira Bracho de Hernández
Julio Villasmil S
Impacto económico de la legislación laboral en Venezuela
Suma de Negocios
LOTTT
Venezuela
Labor legislation
Workday
Outsourcing
Social benefits
title Impacto económico de la legislación laboral en Venezuela
title_full Impacto económico de la legislación laboral en Venezuela
title_fullStr Impacto económico de la legislación laboral en Venezuela
title_full_unstemmed Impacto económico de la legislación laboral en Venezuela
title_short Impacto económico de la legislación laboral en Venezuela
title_sort impacto economico de la legislacion laboral en venezuela
topic LOTTT
Venezuela
Labor legislation
Workday
Outsourcing
Social benefits
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