Cuban citizens and foreigners permanent residents in Cuba over 17 years of age who meet the requirements established for it in the law, resolutions 41 and 42 of 2013 (regulate the approved activities and the scope of them) can exercise their own work. 33 of 2014 (regulates activities related to the leasing of homes, premises and spaces), the three approved by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

Licenses are processed at the Labor Directorate within a period of five days from which it is requested to be authorized by the Director. It can be done the same from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The activities that are carried out in their homes, leased spaces or places approved by the CAM.

This body has the power to limit the exercise of activities in the territories according to the number of workers practicing, fundamentally.

The documents required for the granting of licenses:

1. Identity card
2. Two photos of 1x1 card
3. Sanitary licenses in the case of food activities
4. For the stonemason activity, authorization is required by the Energy and Mines office
5. For space leases, authorization of Physical Planning is required
6. For food activities, a sanitary license is required

The licenses are personal and non-transferable.

In Annex 2 of Resolution 8 of 2013 of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the procedure for the processing of changes in the job location of recent graduates of middle and higher level technician is established and it is necessary to specify the terms for said process :

1. The process of change of work location is requested by the worker based on the written justification of his need to transfer to the entity where he was assigned with an acceptance letter from the requesting body.
2. If the entity does not agree to grant the release, it notifies the worker within ten (10) business days.
3. If the entity agrees to grant the release, it notifies its agency which, in turn, will be in charge of notifying the worker, the result of the analysis within ten (10) business days.
4. The agency evaluates the request and within a term of ten (10) business days notifies the worker of the response and issues the letter of release, to start the process at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
5. The Ministry of Labor and Social Security has a term of ten (10) business days to approve or not, the transfer request.
6. For movements of Higher Level graduates; The releasing body is responsible for submitting to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security the file consisting of:
7. Letter of release with the authorized signature of the body to which the graduate was assigned, addressed to the National Director of Employment of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
8. Letter of acceptance with the authorized signature of the body that accepts the graduate, addressed to the National Director of Employment of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
9. Graduate Work Placement Ballot or its copy.

The main procedures that are carried out in the work addresses are related to:

Change of work location of graduates in Social Service

The fulfillment of the social service is established in Law 116/2015, Labor Code and Decree 326 and the change of work location in resolution 8/2013 of the Ministry of labor and social security.

Social service consists of fulfilling the duty of graduates of daytime courses, who attain knowledge at the higher and professional technical level of education, to put them into society's function in accordance with the planning and priorities of economic and social development .

Social service lasts for three years and is combined with active military service, so that the sum of both completes the three years and is carried out in the place and work in the entity to which the graduate is assigned.

When it is necessary to transfer a graduate assigned to an organ, body, national entity, senior management organization or other entities for the fulfillment of the social service, to another, it is submitted to the approval of the authorities who assigned him, from the conformity of both organs, agencies, national entities or superior management organizations or other entities.

In cases of internal transfers, approval is submitted to the head of the organ, agency, national entity, senior management organization, or other entities or to whom he delegates, where the graduate was assigned.

The letter of release request, from the agency, with the corresponding justification and the letter of acceptance from the agency to which it is proposing to transfer the graduate, is presented to the Municipal Labor Directorate.

In the case of graduates of Technician of Upper Middle Level who are assigned to the organisms of the Central State Administration or their entities of national subordination, the municipal delegate of the organism can only issue the letter of liberation, for those who have that structure, or the Director of the Company when not. In the case of graduates who are assigned to entities of local subordination (Council of the Municipal Administration), the director of the municipal company or of the municipal sector to which they subordinate can issue the letter of release. In all cases, they should be addressed to the Director of Labor, who is in charge of issuing the authorization for the change, if appropriate.

The release for the change of work location is only effective, from having the entity with the written approval of the Director of Labor.