Currently, in Colombia, Law 2101 of 2021 is in charge of regulating legal hours in the country, that is, that a worker perform activities eight (8) hours a day, not to exceed forty-eight (48) hours a week, except for legal exceptions.
Without the labor reform, these are the current accounts in the case of daytime and nighttime overtime. Also surcharges on Sundays and holidays.
The working day has an exception such as agricultural, livestock or forestry activities, in which the daily shifts are nine (9) hours or fifty-four (54) hours per week.
There are then extra daytime hours that go from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and nighttime ones that apply from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
They happen when you work in addition to the amount agreed in the employment contract.
In the case of weekend fines, there are extra hours on Sundays and/or holidays, which are the hours of work that are carried out as the name indicates on Sunday or on holidays.
How much should they pay you for extras?
This year, if a worker exceeds his hours, he must take into account that the legal minimum wage was established at $1,160. 000 pesos, so the hour of work is equivalent to $4,833.
Extra hour equals a 25 percent raiseso the hour would be approximately $6,041 pesos.
In the case of an extra night hour, there is an increase of 35 percent.which is equivalent to $6,524 an hour.
For overtime on Sundays or holidays, the increase is 75 percent giving an approximate value of $8,457.
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