Have nightly overtime pay begin after 6 p.m. and? Saturdays are paid business days. These would be two of the pillars of the labor reform that the government of Gustavo Petro will present to change the law 50.
(See: Pension reform: the changes that Petro would seek to make to the system).
This was announced by the president himself during a speech he gave in the Plaza de Armas, in the center of Bogota, This Tuesday, February 14.
“We want the day to end at 6 pm, not 10 pm, we want there to be a Saturday and Sunday as rest days. That working on a Saturday and a Sunday or beyond 6 pm generates some extras that are paid, we want job stability“, said.
(See: ‘Allow the reforms’, President Petro’s request to Colombia).
Petro called the business community to attention and questioned it: “Who told you that a company could be more productive by transforming workers into slaves. Did capitalism say so?“.
Petro supporters.
analyzed that he ACPitalism does not grow on slave labor, that this is an anachronism, and “that productivity is not born from extending the working day, it is not born from intensifying, but from linking knowledge to production“.
He questioned that, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Colombia is, together with Turkey, among the countries of the entity that “more exploits workers“and what to do”is to expand knowledge and knowledge to the machine and double productivity“.
(See: National Development Plan: goals and priorities of the Petro government).
He insisted that productivity is born from knowledge and not from labor exploitation and that his reform will focus on the dignity of the worker and the worker, and job stability: “We will achieve a more stable world at work, companies will be more stable and workers will love them more, contributing to greater enrichment and better wages and profits“.
Finally, he said that the proposal will revolve around knowledge and that earnings and salaries are not a 0-sum game, because “both can grow if knowledge is linked to production“.
(See: The pillars of the health reform explained by Minister Corcho).
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