The Government has ready the axes on which the discussions of the labor reform that the country will advance will gravitate and whose proposal will be presented to the Congress of the Republic on March 16. According to the reform subcommittee, there are 18 agreed issues, ranging from labor stability and contract modalities until decarbonization.
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As reported on Ministry of Labor, This reform will count on the participation of the regions and citizens who will be able to contribute inputs to the discussions that will take place around this reform.
«The Ministry of Labor in alliance with the International Labor Organization (ILO) hold territorial meetings, which will go until February 3 on the most representative issues on the labor agenda, among which work on digital platforms and rural work stand out, among others, said that portfolio.
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The government also released the content of circular 003 of 2023, issued by the Ministry of Labor, which promotes the active participation of the members of the Departmental Subcommittees of the Permanent Commission for the Agreement on Wage and Labor Policies.
The document clarifies the activities that will be carried out, as well as the designation of its delegates by sector, the request, consolidation and remission of the proposal, and the priorities of the reform that will develop the principles of article 53 of the Political Constitution of Colombia- Labor Statute.
Said circular also includes the schedule for the first quarter of 2023, and it is left open so that other sectors and organizations can be summoned to enrich the proposals to consolidate the project that will be discussed this year in the Legislative Assembly.
The topics
1. Constitutional labor principles
2. Job stability and contract modalities
3. Outsourcing/subcontracting, business unit
4. Control of the use of service provision contracts
5. Apprenticeship contract
6. Sundays and holidays
7. Night session
8. Automation
9. Decarbonization
10. Work on digital platforms
11. Rural work
12. Casual work
13. Migrant labor
14. Sex work
15. Equity and gap reduction
16. Union Association
17. Collective bargaining
18. Strike
