Salary Councils
The Salary Councils are not new to Uruguay, in fact they were established by law in 1943. However, since the early 1990s they had not been convened by the Executive. In 2005 they were reconvened through Decrees and in support of the organization of other High Councils. In 2009, through Law No. 18,566, competencies were added to the Councils, for example in terms of working conditions, beyond the fixing of minimum wages, which was the main theme dealt with by Councils through processes of deliberation between different social classes, including government: The Councils consist of three delegates of the Executive Power and two delegates each from the employers and employees in order to establish social dialogue. Another novelty that emerges in this new stage of constitution of the Councils is that it extends to the rural sector, domestic activity and the public sector.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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