President José Antonio Kast has announced the creation of a technical employment task force to tackle what he described as a "labor emergency" in Chile. The measure, unveiled during his first official speech at the Hospital del Trabajador, aims to integrate proposals from various sectors into the National Reconstruction Plan within a one-month timeframe.
As reported by BioBioChile, the President warned of a structural crisis in the labor market, noting that the country currently has over 900,000 unemployed individuals and approximately 2.5 million workers in the informal economy. Through this initiative, the administration seeks to gather solutions aimed at driving economic recovery centered on job creation.
Labor Minister Tomás Rau confirmed that the technical committee will begin meeting in the coming days. The goal is for the outcomes of this technical dialogue to become a core component of the State's reconstruction strategy.
Conflict over copyright
Alongside the labor announcement, the National Reconstruction Project is facing heavy resistance in Congress due to a provision affecting intellectual property. Article 8 of the proposal seeks to add Article 71T to Law No. 17.336, which would allow the reproduction and adaptation of works without the owner's authorization or payment, provided the purpose is the extraction or statistical analysis of large datasets.
According to El Mostrador, this regulation has drawn criticism from cultural guilds, the press, and universities. Even Interior Minister Claudio Alvarado has expressed doubts about the proposal, calling for the search for parliamentary consensus.
The Society of Chilean Writers (SECH) warned that the measure creates uncertainty regarding the protection of copyright. "This announcement, made on the eve of International Book Day, is highly concerning, as the proposed regulation casts a shadow of doubt over the protection of copyright, which is an indispensable condition for the practice of our profession," the organization warned, as reported by El Mostranter.
Meanwhile, Felipe Schuster, an attorney specializing in intellectual property law, noted that the measure could allow the Artificial Intelligence industry to bypass license fees in Chile by using protected works to train their systems.
