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in practice, if you employ a local as part of startup chile you will be hiring them as self-employed contractors (it's incredibly easy to be self-employed in ch

in practice, if you employ a local as part of startup chile you will be hiring them as self-employed contractors (it's incredibly easy to be self-employed in chile). and the above does not apply. however, the above shows the kind of clout the richer classes have here. despite this being a question about conservative bureaucracies and super-rich family businesses, the unions somehow get blamed. i can remember my bosses complaining about "worker mobility" in the one chilean company i worked for - it suddenly wasn't an issue the day i resigned. [edit: one thing i think that startup chile companies should use to their advantage is the idea of an "american working culture". the chilean culture is to do very little for very long hours. in contrast, you should be able to sell something more like "we want you to work your fucking ass off, but only for 8 solid hours a day". at least for me, that would be a huge incentive. however i don't know if it works so well for young (just out of uni) chileans, who may not yet have the experience to see what a good deal it really is. chilean working hours are the second longest in the oecd, behind only s korea - http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=LEVEL# http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=LEVEL#. edit2: whoa that's changed! they are now in third place. curious. they were second earlier this year - http://www.acooke.org/cute/LongWorkin0.html http://www.acooke.org/cute/LongWorkin0.html exactly who to blame for this is unclear, at least to me. while i am not sympathetic to people who simply blame the unions in a country where the gini coefficient is so high (see above) there is clearly a problem. politics are very polarized - people may not understand that doesn't mean just communists, it also means raving fascists at the other end of the spectrum (if you speak spanish, peruse http://www.google.cl/search?q=chacarillas+1977 http://www.google.cl/search?q=chacarillas+1977 - if you dig around you'll find a list showing how many are now in positions of power). i hate to say it, but what the country really needs is some kind of tony blair who can find a populist middle ground that creates space for dialogue.]

vpeters25 14y ago
I worked there as self-employed contractor and unless the law changed, the employer was forced to convert you to full time employee after 6 months. They might have changed that, last I heard there was a huge political fight about part-time employees on franchises such as McDonald's
- Raliaga 14y ago
  AFAIK that only applies to government organizations, as long as you get paid the same amount each month, and all the time you can easily avoid that by getting paid (Salary-X) one month, and (Salary+X) the following month, X needing to be just two dollars.

vpeters25 14y ago

I worked there as self-employed contractor and unless the law changed, the employer was forced to convert you to full time employee after 6 months. They might have changed that, last I heard there was a huge political fight about part-time employees on franchises such as McDonald's

Raliaga 14y ago
AFAIK that only applies to government organizations, as long as you get paid the same amount each month, and all the time you can easily avoid that by getting paid (Salary-X) one month, and (Salary+X) the following month, X needing to be just two dollars.