Employers and employees will have greater opportunities for economic growth with the opening that Guatemala had to the part-time contract (as other Latin American countries are doing, through Governmental Agreement 89-2019 in the Diario de Centro Am\u00e9rica, in force for Guatemala from July 5, 2019. This allows a permanent employee to be hired for 4 to 6 hours a day. Previously, a day-time worker could be hired in a dependency relationship, not exceeding 8 hours a day and 44 hours a week. <\/p>\n
Employers may have a greater number of employees by paying them according to the time worked, which will reduce the informality and allow recruiting more talent, have a greater number of employees at schedule of mutual convenience. This could represent a better profit margin by incurring lower labor costs, and for the Company it represents a higher rate of employment and productivity.<\/p>\n
Likewise, students will be able to enjoy of the Social Security and work benefits at an early age, working 4 to 6 hours a day in formal employment, allowing them to acquire experience while completing their studies, which was previously a limitation in Guatemala. Also, We appreciate how attractive it can be for “millennials” who have demonstrated to aspire for professional autonomy. This would allow them to earn a high fixed salary, and the same time develop their own ideas and projects, making them an entrepreneurial generation.<\/p>\n
This legislation will help Guatemala to improve its position in the Global Competitiveness Index. An example that demonstrates this, is in several cities in the United States: the part-time industry is the fastest growing in the last fifteen years in cities such as Chicago and San Francisco – cities with a wide range of jobs.<\/p>\n
The consulting firms, auditors, lawyers and systems engineers in Guatemala, such as ECOVIS Guatemala, will be able to have permanent part-time talent for specific projects that require the investment of 20 or 30 hours of work per week, which was previously a limitation because it required us to hire them permanently for 40 or 44 hours per week.<\/p>\n
Other examples of industries that will hire more people are as follows:<\/p>\n
Women with young children will also benefit, to be employed in permanent part-time jobs, contributing to the family budget.<\/p>\n
On October 3, 2019, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ordered the suspension of part-time contracting regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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