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Local July 12, 2013 | 10:20 am

Cutting severance pay could lead to upheaval, Dominican unions warn

Santo Domingo.- Eliminating the severance pay in any reform of the Labor Code could unleash a social upheaval on rebuke by workers, Rafael (Pepe) Abreu, president of the labor unions grouped in the (CNUS) warned Thursday.

"Basically what they (employers) want is to deprive the employee of the right to accumulate seniority on merit, they want a person to spend 20 years in a company an... Read more