Although the Labor Code recognizes moonlighting, this modality is still not recognized or used in the work centers as it should be, taking into account the demographic situation of the country and the urgency of stimulating moonlighting to fill vacant workforces due to lack of qualified personnel in many centers.
This type of employment is governed by Article 28 of the Code, which establishes that «workers, after fulfilling the duties of the position they hold, may perform other work for which they sign an employment contract and receive the corresponding remuneration for the work performed». For this reason, there are self-employed workers who are also state workers.
We know that even the income from the salary is still insufficient to cover the basic needs of the worker and, therefore, does not constitute a sufficient motivation with a view to the incorporation to employment.
There are misunderstandings and ignorance about teleworking and telecommuting both by managers and in the groups themselves, especially in those where not all workers by the characteristics of their work can access this option, seen by many as temporary and not as a permanent mode of work.
Telecommuting can also represent an advantage for workers to be able to moonlight and better distribute their time as a way to contribute to the satisfaction of their needs, it favors savings and the development of society.
In this regard, Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau of the Party and Prime Minister, has warned about the imperative to take a different look at employment and incorporate teleworking and telecommuting as a permanent mode of execution of work, not only as a contingency or something that was left behind by the pandemic of COVID-19.
In Cuba since 2021 the Labor Code recognizes that the employer and the employee can agree on the place of work and in July 2021 the resolution of the regulation for teleworking and telecommuting was issued.
Sometimes these modalities are not used and the union sections are unaware of the role they can play according to the powers legislated in the Labor Code, which in Article 15 states that trade union organizations in the exercise of their rights, have among their functions to represent workers before the employer in the exercise of their rights and protection of their individual and collective interests.
