Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court arguing that challenged law, part of the Law of Employment Formalization, should be interpreted to mean that any employees responsible for programmatic and permanent activities in private and public entities must hired via employment contract.
Dejusticia argued that worker cooperatives, service contracts, or other figures (rather than employment contracts) ignore workers’ rights. Accordingly, the law should not come into effect immediately but until July 2013, thus allowing all entities to adjust their staff to the new standard requirements.
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