SUMMARY OF ACT 1444 OF MAY 4, 2011

ACTION

PURPOSES

OBJECTIVE

700 Increase in quotas for protection of union member in the country

Raising levels of protection for union leaders, including activists and workers who are trying to organize unions and former union members who may be threatened by his past work

The idea is to expand the range of protection not only to union leaders, but also activists who have threatened their lives on account of their role

Plan  to strengthen the capacity and the number of prosecutors and investigators in Ministry of Justice regional offices

Develop a program to improve training for police and prosecutors with the assistance of the Departments of  State and Justice of U.S.

Perform an analysis of recent murder cases to identify steps to improve future efforts to identify motives and intellectual authors and successfully prosecute those crimes

reforming the Penal Code to strongly punish behaviors against the rights of workers.

Enact laws including fines, to prohibit the misuse of cooperatives and other employment relationships that undermine the rights of workers.

Review of security schemes that actualy are given to magistrates, judges and human rights activists will focus in a drastic change to strengthen them. Basically, the change will unify the eight funds that the state actualy has to protect the lives of these functionaries and on which there is no control in a single command.

Department of Justice will catch up with application backlog for the protection of union members

Monthly meetings with each trade union confederation and the Escuela Nacional Sindical (ENS) to reconcile the list of pending cases of murder of unionists, compiled by the ENS with the Attorney General

expedite action on pending cases of labor violence