The debate on the labor reform continues in the seventh commission of the House of Representatives. During this Thursday, June 13, highlighted the elimination of different files that tried to regulate the collective rights of workersand the creation of unions.
All this due to a proposal signed by 12 congressmen from the democratic center, the La U party, Cambio Radical, a liberal and conservative party, who considered that an agreement was not reached for the contradictions that these articles represent, and that they were not able to reach an agreement. at the salary negotiation table.
Within these articles, the modification of apprentice quotas in companies was proposed, the creation of jobs in emergency response and forestry, scope of application of collective bargaining, freedom of association, membership in unions.
Likewise, prohibitions on unions, retention of union dues, protected workers, right of federation, guarantee of the right to collective bargaining, right to strike and essential services, development and form of strike, functions of the authorities, the administration of the Single Contribution Settlement Form (PILA).
The Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, regretted the elimination of these articles, as it considered that Colombian legislation is outdated for the right of union association and collective bargaining, ensuring that it is a regulation from the first half of the last century.
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