The Council of Ministers of Cuba established new rules for hiring individuals who have been officials of the State or the Government and intend to work in companies linked to foreign investment, branches, or representative offices in the country.
The , published this Thursday in the , establishes periods of one to two years that certain former executives must wait after leaving their positions before they can be appointed or hired by those entities.
The provision responds, as explained by the Council of Ministers itself, to the need to establish mandatory rules for employers in the selection and hiring of individuals who have previously held positions as State or Government officials.
For positions categorized as senior executives, the period shall be one year after ceasing their functions when, due to the responsibilities they held, they have not maintained direct working relationships with the foreign investment modality, branch, or representative office where they could be hired.
The restriction increases to two years when those senior executives have maintained direct working relationships with the foreign investment modality, branch, or representative office. Only after this period has passed can they be appointed or hired.
For the other executives, the Council of Ministers establishes a one-year limit from the end of their duties before they can be appointed or contracted in the same activity or sector they worked in previously.
The agreement establishes a differentiated treatment for those who have been officials of the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the Ministry of the Interior (MININT). In these cases, their hiring or appointment is not subject to the general deadlines outlined in the agreement, but will instead be governed by the procedures established by those very institutions. The Gaceta does not provide further details on what those procedures are.
The regulation was adopted by the Council of Ministers on September 2, signed by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, and will come into effect seven days after its publication in the Official Gazette, which took place on September 3.
The regulation comes amid changes approved by the Cuban Government to eliminate the mandatory use of employer entities in the selection and hiring of personnel associated with foreign investment, a relaxation that led the Council of Ministers to establish specific rules for those who were previously state or government officials.
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