On March 16 the labor reform will reach Congress. Before, will have to bypass the Permanent Commission for the Agreement on Salary and Labor Policies, a group in which the 77 articles that plan to turn the sector around will be discussed.
As announced by Gloria Inés Ramírez, Minister of Labor, the text has already been analyzed and debated at their tables. The next process is that it was presented to the Commission, made up of union organizations, employers and the Government, who each year define the increase in the minimum wage.
There, Minister Ramírez will explain in detail the articles that were built over several months with the accompaniment of experts from the International Labor Organization and support from other entities, such as the 2020 Employment Mission, Alternative Employment Mission, Supreme Court of Justice , OECD-ELSAC and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), among others.
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Ministry of Labor
What do businessmen think?
According to the Ministry, the reform has three parts. The first ‘constitutional principles’ seeks “equal opportunities for any worker in the public or private sector”.
The second of the ‘individual labor law’ aims to protect employees. And the third of the ‘collective labor law of work’ focuses on the “guarantees for the union association, collective bargaining and strike”.
As this newspaper has reported, after the reform document was leaked, some aspects have generated opinions of rejection in the business sector. For example, if it becomes law, it could be established that each year all workers must receive a salary increase at least equivalent to inflation as of December 31.
“An increase in the wages of workers linked to inflation caused goes against the creation of employment, makes the costs of hiring workers more expensive and forces employers to be more cautious when setting salary remuneration”, mentioned María Claudia Lacouture, president of the alliance of 41 unions and business associations (Aliadas).
In context: Entrepreneurs do not see with good eyes that all salaries rise with inflation).
In this sense, Jaime Alberto Cabal, president of the National Federation of Merchants (Fenalco), described as a “necessary interference” to “mandatorily place a salary adjustment without leaving companies free to undermine the impact on their costs, their productivity and competitiveness.
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