2023-05-14 01:56:29
The Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, stated this Saturday that the paper on the labor reform will be presented in the Congress of the Republic next week, after advancing in the latter in public hearings.
“We have had enough meetings with the speakers in Congress and its dynamics have begun with the different public hearings, very representative and participatory, where the congressmen are preparing the presentation that will be held next week,” he said.
The announcement was made at a socialization event with the community, at the INEM College in the town of Kennedy, south of Bogotá, where he was optimistic about the process that is being carried out in the Congress of the Republic to carry out the projects of law.
Faced with the legislative process of the pension reform in the Seventh Commission of the Senate, the minister also announced that a public hearing will be held in the city of Cúcuta and then the congressmen will file the paper.
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“We held two hearings this week with a wide participation and next Monday, there will be a public session in the capital of Norte de Santander, and later they will meet to present the paper that I hope will be this week and continue like this, with the debates. that have to be given in the Congress of the Republic”, assured Ramírez.
He The National Government hopes that the bills will be approved in this legislative period and achieve their purpose of decent job. However, it is well known that the unions were not happy with the government’s labor reform proposal because, among other things, they believe that it will trigger wage costs and they assure that it was not agreed upon as has been said.
Precisely, this week there was a strong discussion as a result of a report by the Labor Market Analysis Group of the Banco de la República that warned that the reform would end 454,000 formal jobs in Colombia (in a range between 152,000 and 746,000) because companies would raise their labor costs up to 10.7%. Then 5% of the jobs of this kind would be destroyed, since today there are 9.27 million people working formally.
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The text, which many called attention to as one of its authors was the PhD in Economics, Leonardo Bonilla, son of the Minister of Finance, Ricardo Bonilla, considers the readjustment of the night surcharge from 6:00 pm, the limit of eight daily working hours and the increase in the Sunday and holiday surcharge from 75% to 100% as the changes that would have the greatest impact.
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