Workers may be fired for falling asleep during working hours

The Supreme Court by means of a ruling ruled that workers can be fired for sleeping during working hours. The resolution specifies that the company can cease the work of his employer without prior notice when he falls asleep and risks the safety of his colleagues, the work facilities or himself.

According to the sentence resolved by the Supreme Court (Cassation No. 13969-2019), the worker who falls asleep during the working day, can be fired from immediate form, despite not having previously committed any infraction.

According to the Diario Gestión, the case analyzed by the court was that of an employer who fell asleep while driving a heavy-duty vehicle with the key in the ignition. Although in the previous judgment the Superior Court had indicated that the worker in question could not be fired, the final decision took an opposite turn.

In regular cases where the fact does not involve damage, falling asleep during working hours corresponds to an offense, although it is not a direct cause of dismissal.. Previously, sentences for this reason were partially justified by prior suspension of the worker.

Regulation of law that eliminates the CAS modality will be promulgated in December

The congresswoman Isabel cortez informed that the regulations of Law No. 31131, which establishes provisions to eradicate discrimination in labor regimes, will be ready for publication before December 25 of this year.

Through a press release, the legislator of Together for Peru He specified that the draft regulation will be prepared in accordance with the representative organizations of the workers, after which it will be sent by the National Civil Service Authority (Servir) to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM).