Although the government has taken measures to fight piracy, widespread production and trade in pirated recordings, computer software and video cassettes remains a serious and increasing problem. The principal problem is export of pirated merchandise to neighboring countries. Worker Rights a. It also protects the right to strike and bans binding arbitration. Strikers and leaders are protected by the constitution against retribution.
Unions are free to maintain contact with regional and international labor organizations.
When wages are not set in free negotiations between unions and employers, they are made a condition of individual employment offered to employees. Domestics, children and foreign workers are not forced to remain in situations amounting to coerced or bonded labor. Children between 12 and 15 years old may be employed only in family enterprises, apprenticeships, or in agriculture. The labor code prohibits work by children under 12, and all children are required to attend elementary school. In practice, however, many thousands of children, many under the age of 12, work in urban streets in informal employment.