Colombians will work one hour less per week, thanks to Law 2101. It is planned that by 2026 the working day will be 42 hours per week. However, not all workers benefit from the reduction.
(You can read: To work one hour less in Colombia: everything you need to know about a new working day).
In this 2023 it will decrease one hour and so gradually until 2026. In other words, in 2024 there will be 46 hours of weekly work; in 2025, 44 hours; and in 2026, 42 hours. This does not imply a decrease in salary nor does it affect the rights acquired by workers, as expressed by law.
Does reduction of working hours apply to police and military?
Army Archive
The police and military are governed by other regulationsAs explained by Iván Camilo Jiménez, lawyer and professor at the Labor Observatory of the Javeriana University, for EL TIEMPO.
“It does not apply to them because the reduction in working hours is from the private sector. Police and military are governed by a different labor model in a special labor regime”, he commented.
(Keep reading: Batteries: reduction of working hours in Colombia not applicable in these cases).
The same way, does not apply to public employees of the Ministry of Defense and the National Policefor whom decree 1214 of 1990 establishes a daily working day of eight hours.
For which other employees does the reduction in working hours not apply?
The first group of workers who are excluded from the reduction are those who do not comply with the legal maximum working hours. That is to say:
“Those who reside in their workplace, those who work intermittently (those who work for a few days and then rest, such as bodyguards) and trustworthy management workers,” said attorney Jiménez.
The law also contemplates three other exceptions. The first groups Colombians who work in “especially unhealthy or dangerous” areas. In that case, the Government can determine how the reduction in hours will be made effective.
(We recommend: Abecé of the reduction in the working day that began on July 15).
Another exception has to do with the young people who are authorized to worksince they cannot exceed a certain amount of hours per week:
– Adolescents over 15 and under 17 years of age may only work a maximum of six hours a day and thirty hours a week and until 6 p.m.
– Adolescents over the age of seventeen may only work a maximum of eight hours a day and 40 hours a week and until 8 p.m.
The third exception concerns the agreements that both the employee and the worker can we established on successive turns, “as long as the respective shift does not exceed six hours a day and thirty-six a week.” The employee under this modality is entitled to a day of paid rest, but not to a night recharge or for Sunday or holiday work.
You can also read:
– Avoid fines! The income tax return is coming up: how do you know if you should file it?
– To work one hour less in Colombia: everything you need to know about a new working day.
– Be careful, drivers: Mintransporte will adjust standards for new tires, what will it be like?
– This is how the restriction of private cars during peak hours would work, according to Mintransporte.
LATEST NEWS EDITORIAL
