Labor & Employment Newsletter - July 2025
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LABOR NEWS
Digital wallets are recognized as a valid means of payment for salaries and other labor obligations.- The main changes introduced by Law No. 32413 are as follows:
- It applies whenever there is a prior agreement between the employer and the employee, and the latter considers this method to be more convenient.
- The same principles, rights, and obligations applicable to the payment of wages and other labor obligations through a conventional bank account apply.
- The limit on the garnishment of wages and their guarantee as a maintenance obligation is maintained.
- The digital wallet will be linked to savings accounts or electronic money accounts.
- In the case of digital wallets linked to electronic money accounts, they must belong to companies subject to supervision, and the payment instruments are: (a) savings accounts provided by companies in the financial system, and (b) electronic money accounts.
- The Superintendency of Banking, Insurance, and Private Pension Fund Administrators determines the new operating limit applicable to digital wallets that carry out transactions with electronic money for this type of payment.
- The security standards to be established by the regulations must be complied with. The Ministry of Economy and Finance has until October 11 to approve them.
INSPECTIONS
New precedents of mandatory compliance by the Labor Inspection Court (TFL).- The following criteria for mandatory compliance have been established:
HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK
Signage is necessary even when the hazard is obvious to the worker.- This was stated by the TFL in Resolution No. 779-2025-SUNAFIL/TFL-First Chamber, in which it sanctioned a company for an accident suffered by a worker while moving around the workplace. The worker suffered a broken leg as a result of her movement through the field where she was performing agricultural work (fall on the same level).
According to the TFL, the company should have marked the work area, considering that it was an area with stones and uneven ground, which would have caused the worker to fall. In this regard, it pointed out that although the risk was apparent to any worker, the area should have been marked to avoid any contingency.
REMINDER OF THE MONTH
SUNAFIL letters to companies in the mining, hydrocarbons, and electricity sectors.- SUNAFIL has sent letters to employers in these sectors requesting that they submit: (a) updated records of workplace accidents, occupational illnesses, dangerous incidents, and other incidents, and (b) a list of injured workers.
Letters from SUNAFIL requesting information on worker attendance during the transport strike.- SUNAFIL has sent mass letters to employers requesting information on worker attendance on July 24 during the transport strike in Metropolitan Lima and Callao. It is likely that if transport strikes continue, they will continue to request this information.