The plan will potentially benefit 3,300 workers at an estimated cost of $4 million (€3 million), and will include allowances and direct subsidies.
The newspaper La Segunda reported Labor Undersecretary Mauricio Jelvez said this is "the initial scheme of the intervention program, whose details will be polished without ruling out extending the proposal with other entities."
Programs will be established to retrain former industry workers, at an average cost of $236 (€172) per person.
Emergency programs will be developed to find jobs in other industries for salmon workers who lost their jobs because of cutbacks related to infectious salmon anemia (ISA), a virus that has drastically cut production at Chilean salmon farms.
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