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Santiago. Claudio Aravena, Vice-President of the Chilean National Confederation of Commerce, Production and Services, CONATRACOPS, expressed during a TV interview that the sector he represents considers the approval of the law declaring Friday 17^th and Monday 20^th, September 2010 a national holiday for the Bicentennial Celebration, a discriminatory act towards commerce workers, who will not be benefitted by this measure. “It is a complete setback. Laws are made for some workers in this country but a certain group developing their duties in commercial centres are discriminated or treated like second-or third rate workers” he ends by pointing out that his demand lies not in the number of holiday days for the commerce activity, but they consider that “they should have legislated on equality grounds so that everybody would be in full possession of the right to rest”

See video of the interview (in Spanish)

Source: Channel 13 TV www.canal13.cl

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