The Seventh Committee of the House of Representatives was summoned at 9 in the morning and registration was opened at about 10, but at no time was the minimum number of representatives completed to start the session.
For the second time this week, the debate on the labor reform could not take place.
Discussion could not start Given the impossibility of achieving a quorum since the representatives of Cambio Radical and Centro Democrático never arrived since that way the impediments of the congressmen cannot be voted.
The discussion was scheduled
The Government has not been able to initiate the discussion of the labor reform and without agreements with the project it has not been possible to advance on the first points, which are the vote of impediments.
Experts and businessmen from the country have alerted about the possible impacts on the generation of employment in the country of said initiative, as it was presented.
The paper for the first debate has 82 articles, of which there is already a consensus in the parties in 46 of them. However, the rest will be defined in the middle of the legislative debate that will have to take place until June 20, when the legislature ends, and if they are not enough, extra sessions would be called.
Representatives to the Chamber of the different benches, as well as the Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez RíosIn the less than two hours of Tuesday’s session, they defended the importance that this initiative represents for the workers and the country, which seeks to restore some of the rights that Colombian workers have lost in the last decade, and they agreed in which the debate of the project was made, precisely, with the seriousness and importance that this demand of the congressmen.
The Minister of Labor insisted on the progress that the country will achieve in labor matters with this initiative so that Colombians receive fair treatment in terms of remuneration and rights.
“… what we want to do is a very good reform and look for balance points because today We cannot continue working and legislating in favor of the business community, but we must also legislate with the counterpart, which are the workers. I call these equilibrium points and I think that Colombia is going to advance”, stressed the senior official.
