Walmart announced that will change contract conditions for 500 outsourced positions and will open up 1,000 new vacancies for its 185 stores and selling stations Palí and Maxipalí. Until now, Walmart would hire contracting agencies that provided outsourced workers. These employees would do a few hours work shifts at Walmart and afterwards would go to […]
Government changes rule that limited budgets
The administration of Luis Guillermo Solís wiped out a fiscal provision that subjected public institutions to justify increases in expenditures with a study of financial sustainability and solvency. The same government created this rule on March 2015. On last December, Solís signed an act that got rid of the provision that would have limited public […]
Electoral court expands gender equality in candidates lists
The ex-minister of Women Issues and representative Maureen Clarke praises the decision by the Electoral Supreme Tribunal (TSE for its acronym in Spanish) to compel political parties to place women on the top positions of candidates lists. Before the decision, parties only had to comply by appointing women to 50% of candidacies. Clarke submitted the case last year, asking for […]
Value of exports stalled in the first quarter of 2016
The value of Costa Rica goods exports has stalled in the first four months of 2016, when exports were of $3.199 billion, which is 0.33 percent less than it was in the same period of 2015. The agriculture sector shows a modest recovery. Exports went up to $947 million this year from $920 in the […]
CIDH is running out of funds and it could lay off 40% of its staff
The Inter-American Human Rights Commission (CIDH for its acronym in Spanish) announced that would suspend all visits and hearings scheduled for this year and it could lay off 40% of its personal (30 people) if by July the country members of the Organization of American States (OAS) don’t provide urgent funds to keep functioning. In […]
Brexit or not, Solís would strengthen relations with the UK
The Costa Rican president, Luis Guillermo Solís, explained in London his desire of strengthening commercial relations with the United Kingdom and he seemed confident to overcome any impact Great Britain leaving the European Union might cause, an outcome labeled as Brexit. Costa Rica has a free trade agreement with the European Union but it doesn’t […]