In recent weeks, President Gustavo Petro’s cabinet has been reconfigured. This after the president will request the protocol resignation of the members of his team to carry out Some changes aimed at fulfilling the Government Plan.
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Precisely, one of these adjustments is related to Antonio Sanguino’s assignment as the new Minister of Labor. The official will adopt the position after the departure of the Inés Ramírez Gloria as the holder of this portfolio.
In an interview with El Tiempo, Sanguino talked about the challenges he will face in the post and the state of the work policies currently in the country.
Social reforms
According to the incoming minister, the conversation that today dominates the public debate in Colombia has to do with two of the reforms that lead the Executive Agenda: work and pension. In that sense, he pointed out that his main objective will be that of Achieve spaces for consultation among the actorsincluding workers and businessmen.
“The ministry that I want to lead is not to turn off fires, it is to strengthen the spaces of agreement. That the agreement is customary,” Indian. The official also pointed out that with this he has to give him the country “Modern, fair and democratic labor relations.”
“The Concertación will be the way to resolve labor conflicts and contradictions that are consubstantial to the world of work. This is concretized in a progressive and democratic labor reform and a new pension system that the Government and Congress handed over to the country”he added.
In the specific case of labor reform, Sanguino emphasized the need for Let an update be done in labor standards. Thus, what you want to do with this initiative is for the national territory to be in tune with international standards and regulations.
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Labor reform
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THE CHALLENGE OF INFORMALITY
Regarding how it will seek to reduce informality, the Montrabajo mentioned that it is a task that must be faced gradually, generating agreements with the business sector and consolidating public policies that allow Strengthen the productive apparatus. In the same way, he pointed out that it is also required “An integral action of the State in Health, Education and Housing that takes more Colombians of poverty and misery.”
“We have a productive apparatus with brakes, not sufficiently developed to absorb the labor of the country,” highlighted.
As for how to solve it, the Sanguino Minister indicated that this is done with “Greater productivity, with greater economic growth. With greater incentives for the Colombian economy to grow and allow to absorb the labor that is today in the informal economy and the new labor that is incorporated into the labor market.”
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