Government announces partial unemployment insurance for hotel workers in coastal areas of Uruguay

The government will provide partial unemployment insurance for three months for the hotel workerswith special focus on the Coast from the country.

The minister of Turismo, Tabare Vieraexplained today at a press conference that the measure will cover the months of September, October and November, seeking to mitigate the effects of the exchange rate difference with Argentina, which is hitting the hotel industry and thermal destinations in that region of the Uruguay.

“The people of the coast have suffered a lot, particularly the thermal destination with what it has been like this winter and the loss of competitiveness compared to Argentinawhich also has a thermal offer,” he indicated Vierain reference to some Hotels They are only working on weekends.

“With this, sources of work are preserved, otherwise they must choose to close or go to unemployment insurance in low and mid-season,” he noted. Vierawho added that the partial regime “makes it possible for workers who work a few days a week on a rotating basis not to be fired or put on total unemployment insurance.”

The owner of the Ministry of Tourism He specified that although the measure is focused on the coast, “our country is territorially small, therefore, the border situation extends beyond the coast and the measure reaches that estimate of about 1,000 people,” held Viera.

The Ministry of Labor announced special unemployment insurance for citrus and fruit workers

The minister of Work and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Mieresalso told the press about the implementation of special unemployment insurance for 6 months for workers in the citrus and fruit sector, both in harvesting and packaging.

“Particularly in the citrus sector, it is a situation that has been repeated, and this year it is also aggravated because production was greatly affected by the drought, the same thing happens with the fruit sector in the south of the country,” he explained. Mieres.

The head of the MTSS stated that the measure will have a direct impact between 2,000 and 3,000 workers distributed in the north of the country, in the case of citrus, and in the south of the country, in the case of the fruit sector.