The Chilean Government is trying to untie the fisheries law

According to La Tercera the ministries of Economy and Finance are preparing a formula to modify the article that establishes the expiration of a concession due to three defaults of labor obligations committed by a company or one of its subcontractors.

In their favor, the salmon industry argue that this modification includes labor changes through a sectorial law and not by the Labor Code; modifies the concept of companies, establishing that the producer and its subcontractors are one single economical unit; and that the new labor justice operates faster with a consequently higher chance of collecting three executed sentences in a three-year timescale.

In his turn, the chairman of the Chilean Association of Banks and Financial Institutions (ABIF) Hernán Somerville said that the labor issues contaminate the fisheries law, La Nación published.

Finally, the president of the National Confederation of Salmon Industry Workers (Conatrasal) Javier Ugarte stated that "the only ones that have contaminated the industry and accountable for the social crisis are the salmon businessmen, because they didn't knew how to control the business, acting meanly and defaulting in front of the labor obligations".