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Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)

CHILE POLITICS & ECONOMY: Bachelet pushes through labour reform

This month, Chile’s bicameral national congress ratified President Michelle Bachelet’s proposed labour reform bill, which strengthens trade unions – a declared policy priority for the centre-left Nueva Mayoría coalition government which took office in March 2014. Rejected by the private sector, the reform’s approval – which the political opposition is challenging before the constitutional court (TC) - comes amid more unpromising signs for the domestic economy.

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