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Weekly Report - 17 March 2016 (WR-16-11)

CHILE: Labour reform leaves nobody happy

Given the amount of political capital President Michelle Bachelet has expended painstakingly advancing her government’s labour reform it must be a source of serious frustration that it has failed to convince either Chile’s business sector or the country’s trade unions. The senate approved the labour reform, with some modifications, on 10 March, which marked the halfway point of Bachelet’s four-year-term. This should have been a landmark achievement as the labour reform was one of Bachelet’s key campaign promises, and had been mired in the senate since last October, but instead it elicited fierce criticism from every significant business association, and the main trade union, Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), reacted by calling a general strike for 22 March.

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