The Cuban regime is bringing new activities to the private sector

The Cuban governor eliminated the list of permitted activities in the private sector and only limited to the 124 occupations, a far-reaching reform reform that opens the doors to the expansion of employment by means of a serious economic crisis. The decision was announced in July in a media package to address the recession and the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, but has not been approved this week by the Council of Ministers, following a public hearing this Saturday.

“What the job requires to continue to develop is the proposal of this perfection”, said the Cuban Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó, who recorded that the private sector employs 600,000 workers and exceeds 13% of the population.

At the moment it has not been specified of the 124 activities to which the private sector could not be accessed, to eliminate the list of allowed occupations implies to pass the 127 that the institution includes in the amount of more than 2,000 received in the National Classifier of Economic Activities, the Minister said.

In fact, the sanitary crisis and the continuation of the United States sanctions have had a “lasting impact” on autonomous workers, a large percentage of the operating costs in the tourism and services sectors.

In keeping with the title of Trabajo, the interested parties should present a project and the traumas will be carried out through a single vent, “which will enable the productive forces in this sector to recover,” he assured. It calls for assimilation of the “responsibility” of the provincial and municipal authorities “with the attention, control and evaluation of the development of this sector, as well as the results of the inspection and training in the benefits”, Granma refines.

For its part, the Minister of the Economy, Alejandro Gil, calls for the elimination of the list as “a very important step in increasing the employment opportunities in the workforce, in order to respond positively and positively to the implementation of the ordinance. monetary in the country ”.

Although the Cuban State, ruled by the Communist Party (PCC, legal union), maintains the monopoly of the national economy since the 1959 Revolution, in the last decade amplió the number of activities that can be realized by own account.

Cuban economists and the private sector propose a levy calling for the elimination of the list of activities allowed to be considered a burden on the economy of the country.

The meditation is one of the most despairing of the fact that Cuba is pushing for the introduction of monetary and exchange rate consolidation, a major economic reform that includes the elimination of the CUC convertible currency (parity to the dollar), an increase in wages and prices generalized subsidies.

With EFE information

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