The Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, recently rejected the alleged proposals on the adjustment of the 2025 minimum wage and He recalled that there is more than a month until negotiations begin at the labor and salary policy negotiation table..
(Read: Merchants reveal their letters about the minimum wage: the proposal would be in one digit).
“That’s speculation because we’re just going to start the agenda.”Ramírez told journalists who consulted her about the alleged proposals that the unions have launched, which indicate that they would request more than 15.4% increase so that the minimum wage reaches $1,500,000 next year.
However, Minister Ramírez clarified that negotiations have not started and that the real proposals will come from the analysis of factors such as “inflation, the share of wages in GDP, the share of capital and economic growth”.
(Also: Minimum wage 2025: the variables to take into account in the negotiation, according to the CUT).
“That is an essence of the social dialogue process and all our disposition is towards that and we will sit down with the different actors so that, effectively, we have the discussion,” assured the head of the Labor portfolio.
For 2024, an agreement was reached on a minimum salary of $1,300,000 with a transportation allowance of $162,000. This base must be increased for next year taking into account the economic factors that the country and its workers are going through.
Gloria Inés Ramírez, Minister of Labor.
Ministry of Labor
How is an agreement reached?
The salary negotiation table is responsible annually for reaching an agreement for salary increases.
(Besides: Details of the agreement that allowed the mining strike to be lifted in Bajo Cauca).
According to the Ministry of Labor, this table is made up of a representation of the Government, employers and workers, as follows:
• On behalf of the Government: The Minister of Labor, the Minister of Finance and Public Credit, the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the Minister of Agriculture, the Director of the National Planning Department.
• On behalf of employers: Five (5) representatives with their respective personal substitutes, designated by the most representative national trade associations of employers from the different economic sectors of the country, in a weighted manner and in accordance with the participation of each sector in the gross domestic product and in the generation of employment.
• On behalf of the workers: Three (3) Representatives appointed by the most representative Trade Union Confederations in the country, one (1) representative of pensioners, one (1) representative of the unemployed. (Article 5, literal c) of Law 990 of 2005).
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