Labor reform: what changes for people who are employed on platforms? - Personal Finance

The draft of the labor reforms proposed by President Gustavo Petro It will be filed in Congress on March 16. The text, of 77 articles, makes important changes in the working hours of Colombians.

(In context: This is the draft of the labor reform that the Government will carry out to Congress)

For digital platform workers, the document, in Chapter 4, states that this worker will be identified under three facilities. The first provides a service by electronic means, such as website or mobile app; the second, a service is provided at the request of a recipient; Third, these jobs are done by people who do business online or are in a certain area.

If a person performs the work under any of these conditions must be “protected by the principles of this law”says the proposal.

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In the same way, it is pointed out that the competent authorities will have to verify the functionality of the companies. Those that have their employees under the relations of the ILO Recommendation 198 which mentions that if a person performs work “according to the instructions and under the control of another person” and their tasks are “within a certain schedule”, they must wait with an employment relationship.

The draft of the labor reform, also a planet that people who work as ‘webcam models’ could also benefit from the law.

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For people who do work through digital platforms or provide their services through web pages, they will have to be “affiliated to social security, in its subsystems of health, pension and occupational hazards and complying with its obligations to make contributions.

Otherwise, people must directly assume the payment of the 100% of contributions as receivedand “in the event that a risk protected by social security materializes, you must respond for its consequences in the same terms as the social security entity would.”

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Distribution or delivery platforms

For people who provide their services through digital platforms of delivery or deliverythe draft states that companies will have to accept the Substantive Labor Code.

“There is an employment contract on digital platforms when workers work for them in carrying out distribution or delivery tasksConsequently, they are subject to all individual and collective guarantees, rights and benefits of the Labour Code and other labor regulations”, the proposal points out.

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The affiliation and contribution to social security of these people The workers will be as “dependents in the ‘part-time’ modality, contemplated in Decree 2616 of 2013 or in other norms that regulate it and complemented by subsidized contribution contemplated in the legal norms that are issued on the individual”.

In the same way, employees will have to give the Integrated Contribution Settlement Template at the end of each month, where the hours worked and the connection time of each of the employees are included.