In what is a usual democratic practice in Cuba, workers in different economic sectors began debating a new labor code recently proposed to the Cuban Parliament, which the lawmakers forwarded for the workers' consideration before its final approval by the top legislative body.
The document was submitted to debates on Tuesday at a Havana Architecture and Engineering Projects Company, where workers agree with their colleagues throughout the island on the need to have a new labor code amidst ongoing economic and labor transformations that suggest the modification of the current code that has been in force for the past 28 years.
The local workers' assembly, one of the first meetings on the issue in Cuba, gathered over 90 unionized workers, who expressed their criteria and suggestions on the document. The meeting was attended by the president of the organizing committee of the upcoming 20th Congress of the Cuban Workers' Confederation, Ulises Guilarte de Nacimento.
The debates focused on issues, such as working conditions, training and education needs, labor hours and paid holidays, salaries, benefits, and the joint accord to be agreed to by the company staff and the union, among other aspects.
These meetings on the draft labor code are being presided over by the union leaders at every work center, after they all received training sessions to present and explain all details of the document to encourage the debate and analysis.