On January 10, 2023, the Organic Law to Promote the Violet Economy was issued and published in the Official Registry Supplement No. 234 of January 20, 2023. Article 18 of the law establishes that “(…) Company Equality Plans are a set of measures, adopted after carrying out a diagnosis of the situation, created with the aim of achieving equal treatment of opportunities between women and men in the company, eliminating discrimination of any type of gender and multiculturalism. Equality Plans will include the strategies and practices to be adopted to achieve them, as well as the establishment of effective systems for monitoring and evaluating the objectives set. Equality plans will include all departments of a company, without prejudice to the establishment of appropriate special actions with respect to certain work centers.”
Subsequently, through Ministerial Agreement No. MDT-2024-013 of January 19, 2024, published in the Official Registry Supplement No. 492 of February 5, 2024, the Ministry of Labor issued the Guidelines for the Registration of Equality Plans.
On July 29, 2024, Ministerial Agreement No. MDT-2024-099 was signed by the Minister of Labor Ivonne Elizabeth Núñez Figueroa with the purpose of updating the procedures and requirements for the registration of Equality Plans in companies with 50 or more workers.
In said ministerial agreement, the second paragraph of the First Transitional Provision of Ministerial Agreement No. MDT-2024-013 is amended, mentioning the following:
“Those employers who have a payroll of 50 or more workers must register the “Equality Plans” with the Ministry of Labor by July 31, 2025; and, once this period has concluded, the Ministry of Labor will proceed with the corresponding control and sanction process in case of evidence of failure to comply with the “Equality Plan”
In addition, it was indicated that the Ministry of Labor will proceed with control and sanction processes in case of non-compliance after this deadline.
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