QCOSTARICA — Legislators Johanna Obando of the Partido Liberal Progresista (PLP), Daniel Vargas and Jorge Antonio Rojos and David Segura of the Partido Progreso Social Democrático (government) and Nueva República buried the possibility of private sector workers having three weeks a year of vacation, by voting against the bill in the Legal Affairs Committee of the Legislative Assembly.
The initiative, presented by the legislator of the Frente Amplio (FA), Ariel Robles, and supported by FA entire bench, sought to grant three weeks of vacation after 49 weeks of work, in contrast to the two weeks after every 50 weeks currently established by the Labor Code (Codigo de Trabajo).
The bill contemplated the adaptation of several articles of the Labor Code, however, with four votes in favor and four against (from the above-mentioned legislators), the project must be archived.
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According to figures from the International Labor Organization (ILO), a formal salaried worker with more than one year of seniority in Latin America has an average of 14 days of paid vacation per year, in contrast to the average of 20 days in high-income countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which includes the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Germany, France, Canada, and Costa Rica, among others.
But beyond the OECD, ILO studies indicate that Brazil, Panama, and Peru have thirty days of paid vacation, and in other nations, the average vacation days increase over 14 days with seniority.
For example, under Honduran jurisdiction, it is 10 days of vacation after the end of the first year of employment, 12 days after the second year, 15 days after three years of service and 20 working days after four years of service.
Or in Paraguay, vacations are a right that arises after the first year of work is completed, and they increase with seniority. For workers of up to five years, 12 consecutive days are granted; between 5 and 10 years of service, 18 consecutive days and with more than ten years, 30 consecutive days.
According to legislator Ariel Robles, this bill would have an impact on the entire Costa Rican population and a discussion on an initiative that benefits the entire country, would deserve at least to have a justification of the reasons why the legislators of the commission voted against it.
“I wonder what are the reasons that make them give up an opportunity for the working sector of this country to have three weeks of vacation and not two as established since the seventies in the last century. Legislators do give ourselves a week of recess in the middle of the year, at the end of the year we have three weeks, plus three days of Holy Week, I wonder why we have the right and the rest of the workers do not,” Robles questioned.
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