Workers' funds used in private sector

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The National Social Security Council (CNSS) confirmed in a press release yesterday that they had ordered the creation of a special RD$7.5 billion fund with the earnings from the Worker's Compensation Insurance (SRL), after an actuarial study and in response to two of the major business organizations in the country. The petition was supported by the administration and the union sector. According to Hoy newspaper, CNSS president Max Puig said that this decision is part of an agreement between the administration, the employers and the workers, and established that a part of the earning returned to the State, some RD$1 billion will be used to develop a program of improving the infrastructure and equipping the network of Health Service Providers of the Dominican Institute of Social Security (IDSS).

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