By law, workers in the private regime will receive a bonus in July, which amounts to a full salary plus an extra 9% on said bonus, if they are affiliated with EsSalud, the Lima Chamber of Commerce (CCL) recalled. Those affiliated with a Health Provider Company (EPS) will receive a bonus of 6.75%.
Álvaro Gálvez, manager of the CCL Legal Center, specifies that the July bonus, with the aforementioned bonuses, It is received by private sector workers who have worked the first full semester, and those who have not will receive a bonus equivalent to one sixth of their salary for each month worked.
However, if in a month the employee has unjustified absences, a discount of one-thirtieth of the sixth to be received will be applied for each one.
In the event of termination of employment, payment is made provided that the employee has at least one full month of service. “The remuneration eligible for the payment of the truncated bonus is that in force in the month immediately preceding the termination. This is paid together with social benefits within 48 hours after the termination occurs,” Galvez added.
Who gets the free gift and who doesn’t?
Private sector workers with indefinite, fixed-term and part-time contracts have access to the National Holidays bonus; as well as those of small companies after they have been registered in Remype: half a salary for free, in accordance with the law. Also those from micro-businesses that have been working since before joining Remype.
While those under the Agrarian Labor Regime will receive bonuses provided that within five days of having started the employment relationship they have informed their employers that their half-yearly bonuses will be received at the same time as they are paid to workers under the common labor regime, and not together with their daily remuneration.
While, Those who by agreement have an integral annual remuneration, nor those of SMEs contracted after they join Remype or independents (service providers) will not receive it.
Source: Larepublica
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