The discussion of the convenience or not of the reforms that the Government of Gustavo Petro has brought before Congress is advancing, as is the case of the changes that are proposed in matters labor.
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In a seminar organized by the Center for Economic Studies Anif, Fedesarrollo and the Cali Chamber of Commerce, different experts analyze the economic outlook and the impact that these reforms could have.
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He President of Anif, Mauricio Santa María, assured that the government’s labor reform is specifically designed to protect and provide benefits to those who already have them. On the contrary, it leaves informal workers behind.
“The changes that are proposed will generate unemployment,” he said. And he added: “a person who has not finished high school, after this reform it will be impossible for him to have a formal job.”
The night shift would start at 7 pm.
Due to the concern about the increase in salary costs that bringing forward the night shift from 9 p.m. to 6 p.m., finally in the presentation for the first debate on the labor reform it was agreed that it is starting at 7 p.m.
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He Sunday and holiday surcharge also underwent changes. In the initial proposal of the Government, it was said that this would be 100 percent instead of the 75 percent that exists today on the ordinary salary in proportion to the hours worked.
Luis Fernando Pérez, president of the Cali Chamber of Commerce, emphasized the situation in the Valley. “We cannot have a powerful job destruction because we already lived through it and we do not want to return,” he says.
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Labor Minister, Gloria Ramírez.
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María Isabel Ulloa, executive director of ProPacífico, also said that the only thing that the labor reform is going to do is make it impossible for young people to enter the formal labor market.
“The reforms are not thinking about the people, as they say they do,” he concluded
For his part, Luis Fernando Mejía, director of FedesarrolloHe said that the presentation of the reform generates perverse incentives.
