{"id":10322,"date":"2024-04-17T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=10322"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:46:25","slug":"imminent-implementation-of-the-40-hours-labour-law-law-nr-21-561","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/noticia\/imminent-implementation-of-the-40-hours-labour-law-law-nr-21-561\/","title":{"rendered":"Imminent Implementation of the 40 Hours Labour Law (Law Nr. 21.561)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Main aspects of the law:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1- Progressive reduction of the workday to 44 hours in April 2024, 42 in April 2026, and 40 hours in April 2028.<br>2- Reform of positions exempt from the workday limit and review of disputes by the Labour Directorate.<br>3- Creation of 4-week cycles averaging 40 hours with a maximum of 45 hours. For unionized workers, agreement with the union is required, and the maximum may be 52 hours.<br>4- 2-hour time bands for mothers and fathers of children up to 12 years old.<br>5- Weekly schedule 4\u00d73 distributing a maximum of 40 hours over 4 weekly days.<br>6- Overtime compensation for up to 5 additional days of annual holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThis document does not constitute legal advice and the Guerrero Olivos studio will not be responsible for acts or omissions of third parties based on the information contained in it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main aspects of the law: 1- Progressive reduction of the workday to 44 hours in April 2024, 42 in April 2026, and 40 hours in April 2028.2- Reform of positions exempt from the workday limit and review of disputes by the Labour Directorate.3- Creation of 4-week cycles averaging 40 hours with a maximum of 45 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10323,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10322","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticia\/10322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticia\/10322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10327,"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticia\/10322\/revisions\/10327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guerrero.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}