After the resounding fall it suffered in Congress last year, when it collapsed due to lack of processing and despite the little time left on the agenda of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the National Government once again presented its labor reform project , in order to advance on another of the fronts that were proposed in the campaign.
For now, the Congress agenda establishes that next Tuesday – June 11 – will be the date on which the debates on this legislative project will resume and the setting for this new round of the Ministry of Labor It will be the Seventh Commission of the House of Representativeswhere the pension reform was recently endorsed.
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It should be noted that this initiative had been stalled due to disagreements between the groups, particularly on issues such as strikes and union rights, which apparently have already been overcome, so progress is expected on other aspects such as working hours and employment contracts. provision of services, which continue to generate controversy.
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Postponement request
In the midst of expectation for what this new chapter of labor reform could bethe Colombian American Chamber AmCham raised a request to the Government and Congress to be consistent with the legislative moment that is being experienced these days and to leave this project for the next legislature.
María Claudia Lacouture, president of Aliadas, explains the themes of the Congress.
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María Claudia Lacouture, president of AmCham, recalled that currently the country needs proposals that promote economic recovery and in this sense she recalled that a reform is needed that promotes employment and not destroys it, since this will only complicate the crisis that is unfolding. this home.
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“I want to ask Congress and everyone present here that we study the labor reform that is being presented, analyze it and work on it together. There is no rush; This reform is necessary, but Colombia really needs a reform that generates new jobs, integrates new work modalities and, Additionally, it maintains current jobs, not ends them,” said Lacouture.
María Claudia Lacouture, executive director of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Colombia).
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This call was made during the recent Asobancaria Banking Convention, which took place in Cartagena, and during which the need to seek agreements to respond to the growth challenge currently facing the country was also highlighted.
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Lacouture added that, on the path he is currently on, The reform ends employment and that “in a growth challenge like Colombia has at the moment, the generation of employment is essential, that is, if they do not advance it, let’s pass it to the next legislature and work together on an agreement on labor reform.” .
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In this sense, the President of AmCham Colombia emphasized the need to achieve a National Agreement that allows us to continue building the country and continue moving the productive apparatus. “Imposing does not lead to solutions; Working together to reach agreements is what allows us to move forward,” Lacouture pointed out.
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Labor speakers ask for speed
Despite this call from AmCham, the speakers of the labor reform stated that the times are right to achieve a first approval of the project and in the next legislature new adjustments can be made.
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Mafe Carrascal, representative speaker of the initiative, indicated that “this is a debate that workers have been waiting for a long time and that they deserve to improve their conditions, dignify their jobs, improve their salaries, eliminate abuse and violence in the workplaces and most important of all to be able to energize, reactivate the economy, the productivity of the country.”
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“It has been many months of work, we have been there for more than a year working on different presentations and this presentation that we are discussing in particular has many very interesting points that return, they return rights to the workers, such as the night shift that recovers two hours and the Sunday holidays or rather the day of rest with a surcharge that would go from 75% to 100%,” he explained.
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With this, we only have to wait to see if the debate on the reform in the Seventh Committee of the Chamber takes place, taking into account that Congress has a tight agenda and there are other issues that cannot wait.
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