Request for Referendum: Partial repeal of Law 16.906 for the "Promotion of Investments"
In 1998 and 1999 attempts were made to call a referendum with the objective of eliminating article 29 of the Law on the "Promotion of Investments" (Law 16.906). The article reduced the period during which workers could file claims to employers for debts from ten to two years. The initiative was carried out by a group of different unions, but was not supported by the Inter-union Plenary of Workers - National Convention of Workers PIT-CNT. Although it was a question of going through the two channels planned for a referendum, it was not possible to gather the necessary signatures or to call enough people to join the two acts of accession (1998 and 1999), which required 25% of eligible voters. This meant that the referendum was not conducted with mandatory voting.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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