Perla Alderete, Partner of Vouga Abogados, participated as a guest speaker on telework in Paraguay in episode 12 “Revolution 4.0 New Ways of Working - Telework in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia”, of the podcast “Labor Issues,” organized by the prestigious Employment Law Alliance (ELA). The speakers provided their comments and perspectives on the impact that the 4.0 revolution is having on organizations, how it has influenced the new ways of working for both employers and employees, and outlined the existing regulations for telework in their respective countries.

In this sense, Perla Alderete referred about the details in the form of implementation of telework in Paraguay through the Law of Health Emergency enacted in the framework of the pandemic of COVID-19 and its regulations, and highlighted the challenges that arose in general to combine the right to privacy of the worker with the power of control of the employer and with respect to computer security in remote work. He also spoke about the modalities of online, offline and mixed teleworking and highlighted the existing flexibility in terms of the length of the working day as long as the maximum number of hours established in the Labor Code is respected.

Also participating in the same episode were professionals from important law firms in other countries who presented the current situation in their respective jurisdictions: Enrique Radmilovich (from Hughes & Hughes, Uruguay), Oscar Aitken (from Carey, Santiago, Chile), Enrique M. Stile (from Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal, Argentina) René Claure Veizaga (from Moreno Baldivieso, Bolivia) and Renato Canizares (from Demarest, Brazil). The moderator was Francisca Corti, also from Carey, Chile.