The Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) ruled out this Monday that the Government has negotiated a reduction of the Special Bonus for Agricultural Work (BETA) to reactivate the activities of the sector, especially agro-exports.
Hours after a group of protesters took over a section of the Panamericana Sur, at kilometer 263, in the Chinatown of Ica, Minister Jennifer Contreras assured that “It is not intended to repeal or promote any law that curtails labor rights” in the agricultural sector.
“This special bonus for agricultural work, called the BETA bonus—approved by Law 27360—will not be violated by the Executive. “We are not looking to reduce benefits,” he said during the PCM conference.
Already the Association of Agricultural Producers Guilds of Peru (AGAP) had rejected that information. According to the sector that mobilized more than US$10 billion in 2022, there is a desire to break relations with agricultural workers, for whom they guaranteed the continuity of their rights.
However, the previous week, Parliament agreed to an Executive initiative to reduce contributions to Essalud from 8% to 6% – it was to be standardized to 9% soon, as is imposed in other economic activities. Workers will not be left unprotected, since the difference will be assumed by the State.
“This measure does not reduce any salary income. Rather, they are measures assumed by the State so that agro-exporters can continue hiring,” added Contreras.
Conveagro specified that The blockade did not have a major impact on the food supply or local production, which is in full table grape season.
Meanwhile, the Ica Chamber of Commerce He said that the march was called by a group of protesters from the north of the country who came to the region for the December 7 day against President Dina Boluarte. Finding no support, they rose up in isolation.
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Exit. Tuagrap, the union that called the protest in Ica and disclosed the alleged reduction of the Beta bonus, preferred not to declare for La República.
Source: Larepublica
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