17.03.2023
The project that will be sent to Congress seeks, among other things, to stop sexual and labor harassment and improve the income of workers, according to the administration of Gustavo Petro.
The government of Colombia presented this Thursday (03.16.2023) its labor reform project, defined as “ambitious” to improve the conditions and income of workers.
The act, which began three hours late in the Plaza de Armas of the Casa de Nariño, the Colombian presidential headquarters, was scheduled to be attended by the president Gustavo Petrobut who finally led it was the Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, who was accompanied by Vice President Francia Márquez and other officials.
Petro arrived at the end of the act to symbolically sign together with Ramírez the initiative that will be sent to Congress.
Later, when the guests had already left the Plaza de Armas, Petro began his speech apologizing for the delay that he justified by a work meeting with businessmen, the local newspaper El Tiempo reported.
Against sexual and labor harassment
According to Petro, the labor reform will allow, among other things, that sexual and labor harassment in Colombia cease, that wages grow so that the country can industrialize and that people can “be happier in this society precisely because they can enjoy more free time,” added El Tiempo.
“We can say that we have the most ambitious labor reform of this century,” said the Labor Minister.
According to Ramírez, the text that will be sent to Congress for its discussion and approval, “will allow us to move towards a society that recognizes the importance of labor human rights, dignifying the value of production from a human sense.”
The minister stressed that the reform that will now begin its process in Congress “will guarantee the labor rights of the nearly 22 million employed persons in the country, of whom 8,992,000 are women and 13 million are men.”
After emphasizing that the reform project was discussed by the Government with companies, unions and workers, Ramírez said that a fundamental part of this initiative is “labour formalization with decent wages that allow Colombian families to be well-being.”
jc (efe, El Tiempo, RCN News)
