Panama

Last update: 07/02/2022

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1980
1981
2000
2001
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
1958
Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention (1952)
Discrimination Convention (Employment and Occupation) (1958)
1966
Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention (1981)
Maternity Protection Convention (2000)
2022
Domestic Workers Convention (2011)
2015
Violence and Harassment at work Convention (2019)
2022

  • Political Constitution of the Republic of Panama (11 October, 1972)

  • Law No. 4, which establishes Equal Opportunities for Women (29 January, 1999)

  • Law No. 56, establishing the participation of women in government boards of directors (11 July, 2017)

  • Labour Code, Cabinet Act No. 252 (30 December, 1971)

  • Labour Code, Cabinet Decree No. 252 (of 30 December 1971)

  • Law No. 4, establishing Equal Opportunities for Women (of 29 January 1999)

  • Law No. 431 “Establishing the National Care System” (of 25 April 2024)

  • Law No. 147 granting special leave for the care of children or adolescents suffering from leukaemia, cancer or a degenerative disease in a serious or terminal stage (dated Wednesday 15 April 2020)

  • Labour Code, Cabinet Decree No. 252 (30 December, 1971)

  • Constitution of the Republic of Panama (11 October, 1972)

  • Law No. 51 reforming the Organic Law of the Social Security Fund (27 December, 2005)

  • Law No. 238 extending maternity protection to the father and granting leave in case of the mother’s death (15 September, 2021)

  • Law No. 27 establishing paternity leave for private sector workers and public servants (23 May, 2017)

  • Law No. 51, which reforms the Organic Law on the Social Security Fund (27 December, 2005)

  • Resolution No. 52, 805-2018-J.D. on the Social Security Fund (29 August, 2018)

  • Political Constitution of the Republic of Panama. 11 October 1972.

  • Law 4. Establishing equal opportunities for women. 29 January 1999.

  • Executive Decree 53-2002. By which law 4 of 29 January 1999, which establishes equal opportunities for women, is regulated. 26 June 2002.

  • Law 67. Financial Coordination Council. 1 September 2011, published in the Official Gazette No.26863-A of 2 September 2011.

  • Executive Decree 52. Law on Banking. (Consolidated Text of Decree-Law No. 9 of 26 February 1998 and all its amendments). 30 April 2008.

  • Law 130. “Establishing the prudential regulatory framework for microfinance institutions and amending the provisions of Law 10 of 2002, which lays down regulations on the microfinance system”. 31 December 2013.

  • Law 129. “Promoting access to credit and modernising the system of security interests using mortgages on chattels, and enacting other provisions”. 31 December 2013.

  • Law 24. Law regulating the consumer or customer credit history information service (as amended by Law 14 of 2006). 22 May 2002.

  • Law 10. Establishing regulations in relation to the microfinance system. 30 January 2002.

  • Executive Decree 126-2010. Implementing regulation on Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Which implements Law 79 of 9 November 2009, which amends and adds to Law 8 of 2000 and Law 33 of 2000, on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. 23 June 2010.

  • Law 81. Law on Credit Cards. 31 December 2009.

  • Law 2. Know your customer law. 1 February 2011.

  • Law 23. Adopting measures to prevent money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and enacting other provisions. 27 April 2015.

  • No applicable law

  • Law 59/2008: Law that promotes Universal Service and Access to information and telecommunications technologies for development.

  • Presidential decree. Public Policy on Equal Opportunities for Women 2024–2034.

  • Constitution of the Republic of Panama (of 11 October 1972)

  • Labour Code of the Republic of Panama, Cabinet Decree 252 (of 30 December 1971, amended on 12 August 1995)

  • Law 7, adopting measures to prevent, prohibit and punish discriminatory acts and laying down other provisions (of 14 February 2018)

  • Law 82, adopting measures to prevent violence against women and reforming the Criminal Code to define femicide and punish acts of violence against women (of 24 October 2013)

  • Decree N100 implementing Law 82 of 24 October 2013 (of 20 April 2017)

  • Law 9 establishing civil service careers (20 June 1994)

  • Decree 244, adopting the policy of equal opportunities for women (24 December 2012)

  • Law 4, establishing equal opportunities for women (of 29 January 1999)

  • Executive Decree 53, implementing Law 4 of 29 January 1999 (of 25 June 2002)

  • Law 321, approving the Convention on the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work (No. 190) (of 29 August 2022)

  • Law 202, amending Law 82 of 2013 on violence against women and Law 7 of 2018 on the prevention of discriminatory acts (of 8 March 2012)

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