Many years ago a study showed that American textile workers earned three times more than the Chileans, the same function, but were six times more productive. ("Three" and "six" may have been other figures, but the proportion was the one I mentioned).
If Chileans want our workers earn the same as those of other parties, and do not consider the productivity, we can make costly mistakes.
Now the country celebrates six months postnatal. I remember that in the 2005 presidential campaign at a forum of the runoff between Michelle Bachelet and Sebastián Piñera, he spoke of a six-month postnatal, but she said that was a demagogic measure not support it. And I, as viewer, I thought it was the first time I saw a center-right candidate be a leftist demagogue.
Well, last season the same candidate postnatal renewed its offer of six months and I returned to thinking about how demagogue was, but the fact was that, with this and other promises, was elected. He tried "to become the lese" with postnatal six months (already had the votes in his pocket and knew it was bad), it failed, so now sent the bill, which is almost unanimously applauded, because people understand very little of these things.
But today in "El Mercurio" Dr. Juan Pablo Illanes, who chaired a commission on health of the current government says it has examined the situation in this area of \u200b\u200b25 European Union countries, which would include the average is postnatal 5.1 weeks. Here will be 24. In the European Union the country is Slovakia postnatal longer with 14 weeks.
A columnist, former minister of the coalition, Ricardo Solari, said today in "The Second": "We will offer benefits beyond those available to most countries of Northern Europe, developed and per capita income five times higher than ours." Bizarre, no? " . Then points out that most poor women have no postnatal, because they lack employment, or freelancers, or have no employment contract. That's the reality.
In the same paper the former Director of Labor, Patricia Smith, said: "The current regulations concerning nurseries determined that about 70% of firms in Chile do not hire women over 19." (Well, if they employ twenty or more must set up a nursery.) He adds: "On the compensation the employer must assume a cost of more than 50% of the minimum monthly wage." We
so advanced legislation for women, higher than in developed countries, thanks to that our rate of participation of women in the workplace is among the lowest in Latin America.
and demagoguery is done, first, that our production is less competitive, so in order to have demagoguery and production at the same time, we need "a high dollar, artificially high. That's the way to cover up our inefficiencies. And the demagoguery, second, it makes the poor poorer. Most poor women never Postnatal has had or will have, because no employment contract. And you do not have to root for "social gains" as the postnatal six months, or even Europe can afford, or nurseries.
Then the poor woman "is beaten as he can, no contract, no time, in the informal market. And each time it establishes a new "social achievement" demagogic, more poor women into the informal economy and, as competition drives down wages represent precarious and the informal market, the poor are still poor.
Thus, "social gains" are backward and also undertake to maintain a high price of the dollar, which those is more punishing to the poor, because they must pay more for their bread.
And all this increasing inequality in income distribution, but the demagogues manage to blame it on the open market, in circumstances that the real reason the economy is operated by the demagoguery of them.
Unfortunately, she has always been profitable for politicians and the real consequences of his populist proposals have rarely been understood by the people, especially the poorest among them, who are most damaged by this demagoguery.
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