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FROM
CUBA
New requirements for self-employed carpenters
in Cuba 3u2e3l
HAVANA, August 6 (Vctor Manuel
Domnguez, Lux Info Press / cubanet.sergipeconectado.com)
- Inspectors from the National Tax Office
have been making the rounds of self-employed
carpenters with news of a new requirement
to be met: working hours must now be approved
by the carpenters' neighbors and interested
organizations and be endorsed by the municipal
social security and labor ministry offices.
The regulation was issued by the Minister
of Labor and Social Security, Alfredo Morales.
On this round, inspectors are checking
for self-employment licenses and work permits,
receipts from the Tax Authority that all
taxes have been paid, documentation accrediting
the legal procedence of all materials used
in the shop, and now, a petition signed
by all neighbors that stipulates the hours
during which the power saws may be used
and during which hammering and other activities
proper to the craft may be done.
Carpenters pay 200 pesos a month in taxes,
and they must scrounge for their supplies;
a pound of nails currently sells for 40
pesos, and a can of varnish for 15 dollars.
The wood they usually salvage from demolished
structures.
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