Contracts for the provision of services are paid by means of fees that the worker receives in exchange for providing a defined service in order to carry out a specific task and become a creditor of a stipulated remuneration.
These contracts can be made for work of a professional, technical or any other nature.
However, a few days ago, the President of the Republic Gustavo Petro assured that these contracts for the provision of serviceswhich according to him, “exploit the workers” they must end.
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In accordance with the decision, the president assured that it will not affect the country’s economy. “In the formal world we believe that the contract for the provision of non-labor services, which conceals an employment relationship in a lying manner, only to over-exploit the worker, must go down in history and that we must return to the agreed labor relations”, Petro said in the framework of the ‘Ibero-American Forum: challenges of labor formalization’.
When will the measure come into force?
The Minister of Labor, Gloria Ramírez, assured that in the presentation of the labour reform A form of contracting will be proposed in favor of the advancement of labor formalization.
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“What we are proposing through the labor reform is that we are going to structure a form of contracting that effectively removes from our scenario this process of having contracts that section the rights of workers and workers, We are going to carry out a transition process to gradually move towards labor formalization”Ramirez explained.
