Summary.
The bill sets out hiring measures for infrastructure works financed by the State and carried out by private companies. Its purpose is to provide employment opportunities for skilled workers who physically reside in the communities, corregimientos (districts), or districts where those works take place. Private companies carrying out the projects would have to hire at least 25 % of the skilled workers from people whose principal residence is in those localities. The text also provides that the measure would apply throughout the territory of the Republic.
For its implementation, the bill defines local recruitment as seeking and attracting prospective workers within a specified geographic area of a corregimiento (district), district, or province to fill a position. It defines hiring as formalizing the employment relationship between a company and the selected person. Skilled workers are people with the abilities, knowledge, and experience to work, among other occupations, as equipment operators, drivers, bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, general assistants, or guards. Physical residence means having one's principal home in a particular community, corregimiento (district), or district.
Recruitment would require employers to define the profile of the positions to be filled, publish job offers on local employment platforms, and promote vacancies to attract applicants. Construction companies could manage those vacancies through their human resources departments, receive résumés, interview applicants, and make the final hiring decision. These provisions cover the steps preceding selection as well as the company's role in choosing the workers it will employ.
The Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development (Ministerio de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral, MITRADEL) would manage an online employment platform. Companies would advertise vacancies there, and interested workers could apply. The bill would also allow construction companies to use recruitment agencies to find skilled workers in the regions, corregimientos (districts), or districts where state funded infrastructure works are carried out. Local hiring would, in addition, be a condition imposed by the State when awarding infrastructure projects to private companies. The Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development (Ministerio de Trabajo y Desarrollo laboral, MITRADEL) would be responsible for overseeing compliance with the proposed law. The law would take effect on the day following its promulgation.
The public bodies connected with these provisions are the State and the Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development. The content could concern construction companies and other private firms undertaking state funded infrastructure, their human resources departments, recruitment agencies, and skilled workers whose principal homes are in the localities where the projects are developed.
What it proposes.
- Hiring skilled workers who reside near state funded infrastructure works.
- Local recruitment and publication of vacancies.
- A local hiring condition for infrastructure project awards.
Who it would affect.
- Private companies carrying out infrastructure works financed by the State.
- Skilled workers whose principal residence is where the works take place.
- Construction companies and recruitment agencies.
Key points.
- The measure seeks to provide work for skilled people residing where state funded infrastructure works are carried out.Art. 1
- Private companies would have to hire at least 25 % of skilled workers locally; the measure would apply throughout the Republic.Art. 2
- The bill defines local recruitment, hiring, skilled workers, and physical residence.Art. 3
- Recruitment would involve defining job profiles, posting offers on local platforms, and promoting vacancies; construction companies could manage selection through human resources.Arts. 4-5
- The Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development (Ministerio de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral, MITRADEL) would manage an online platform for vacancies and applications.Art. 6
- Construction companies could use recruitment agencies to seek skilled workers in the areas where the works take place.Art. 7
- Local hiring would be a condition for project awards, and the Ministry of Labor and Workforce Development would oversee compliance.Arts. 8-9
- The proposed law would take effect on the day following its promulgation.Art. 10