Chavez enacted the mysterious Venezuelan labor lawBBC News, Caracas


 According to Chavez, the law seeks to end years of abuse the working class.Venezuela's President Hugo Venezuela, issued on Monday a new Labour Law for Workers and Workers (LOTTT), which the government considers "historic" and "first law in traffic and the construction of socialism", but that comes loaded with controversy over how it was approved.Although the government says it was debated for months by a presidential commission involving various sectors is not yet known the text of the regulations.Related ContentVenezuela: the "revolution" which does not bind his workersChavez said he would not give details of the "great achievements that this new law is", but stressed the novelties introduced.Among them: reducing the working week is reduced from 44 to 40 hours day, with a requirement for two consecutive days of rest, maternity leave will be extended from three months to six months old and compensation for unfair dismissal will double the current."As promised, I could not go to Cuba and leave pending the approval of the reform, article by article I have reviewed the final proposal submitted to the commission. I made some modest contributions, we have a new law to history," Chavez said in a ceremony at Miraflores Palace and broadcast radio and television.It was the first time the president appeared in public since early morning on Thursday returned to Venezuela from Cuba, where he spent 11 days under medical tramiento by cancer that afflicts him.Chavez also received approval to leave the country again for more than five days to travel to Havana, which is expected to occur on Monday, to face what he called "stretch" of treatment.Controversy"As promised, I could not go to Cuba without leave pending the approval of the reform, article by article I have reviewed the final proposal submitted to the commission. I made some modest contributions, we have a new law for the story"Hugo Chavez of VenezuelaThe law was enacted covered in the special powers that the Enabling Act, passed in December 2010 because of heavy rains, gave Chavez 18 months to rule by decree without control of the National Assembly.Although LOTTT be the organic law, must receive the approval of the Supreme Court."This bill I will send to the court review its legal status is the result of long years of struggle, attacks against the working class. The battle is still tough, not only against the bourgeoisie and the rebels, but also against lack of awareness and bureaucracy, "said Chavez.Although it takes months to prepare, the way to pass the law was fraught with uncertainty and it was only last week that the president began to tell through his Twitter account the main lines of the new regulations.José Vicente Carrasquero, a political scientist and professor at Simon Bolivar University, believes that adoption of the law now is a movement of electioneering ahead of elections on October 7.Farewell to the CommissionPresident Hugo Chavez announced Monday the creation of a Council of State to charge the first thing he said, will consider lifting the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).He said that "while ago" that his country had to leave the body of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington.Chavez differences with the Commission are of long standing. Last September, the court demanded the lifting of the veto hanging over the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.In December, Venezuela was talk of "wrongful prosecution" by the Commission.Commission decisions are binding on its members. "The first country to know that American commission is the United States and is a mechanism used by that country against us," he said."Just that, and the need to appear as a government 'workerist' before the first of May, says that now come to agree on a standard that must pass under the Constitution for ten years," said Carrasquero told the BBC."They say the standard has been more debated, but the text is unknown. Not made in good discussion, and with the participation of entrepreneurs or workers not aligned with the government. The president made the election for a purpose" , said Carrasquero.The International Labour Organization states that the change of a labor law is given by consensus and by discussion with all stakeholders.And while Chavez has said the new law was made by the "workers and not by the bourgeoisie," very little was known of the regulation before its approval.However, the government argues that this standard was reached after collecting more than 19,000 proposals in a committee working since last year and believes the law "the most debated in the country's history.""No law has been discussed and debated more than this, after the Constitution, were assemblies, workers' requests that the Special Powers took over," the deputy said Monday Oswaldo Vera, president of the Standing Committee on Developing Social of the National Assembly."It was not done with the dome (business), but nevertheless we had meetings with the various chambers of workers" and developed "more than 1,200 base assemblies," said the deputy.What will change?"The changes announced by the president in the Labour Act are not as impressive as expected negatively (...) It was not until the law to understand its impact," said the director of public firm Datanálisis, Luis Vicente Leon."They say the standard has been more debated, but the text is unknown. Not made in good discussion, and with the participation of entrepreneurs or workers not aligned with the government. The president made the election for a purpose"José Vicente Carrasquero analystCarrasquero, meanwhile, considered "exaggerated" the "noise" around the LOTTT: "It lays down measures already in the previous law, as the prior tenure of pregnant women, cases in which only extends the time "."Reducing working hours is not. Venezuelans have long work eight hours Monday to Friday," he said.However, to Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro the new law seeks to "ensure labor rights, give stability to workers and fair redistribution of wealth" and noted that the previous legislation passed in 1997, only intended to "flexible working conditions place in the country and establish conditions for the neoliberal system. "Maduro stressed that establishes LOTTT working conditions "according to a new egalitarian social model, a new economic model of production.