| Description | The Peruvian law differentiated between "empleados" (white collar workers) and "obreros" (manual workers). Law 4916 of 1924 provided for payments of certain compensation to empleados if the employer should terminate their services. These benefits were extended by subsequent laws. As from 1934, some compensation was payable to obreros as well as empleados, and this was further extended by Law 10211 of December 1944. Law 8439 of 1936 further increased the compensation payable, and Law 8540 of the same year extended the rights of empleados to engine drivers, conductors, firemen and first brakemen with ten years' service. Further legislation of the 1930s and 1940s covered life insurance and pensions. |