After fine-tuning details and a long process of debate and agreement with the congressmen who will be speakersthe Ministries of Labor and Health have everything ready to move forward with the processing of the reforms who leads each of these portfolios, in order to pay off the outstanding debt of President Gustavo Petro in these areas.
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The first of these two will be the labor one, which will be filed in the coming days.as confirmed by Minister Gloria Inés Ramírez, who will once again lead the process and be the spokesperson in three remaining debates.
This official stressed that the text to be presented is the result of joint work with the House of Representatives, trying to accommodate the majority of proposals that have emerged from academia, unions and social sectors interested in moving this project forward.
According to Ramirez Rios, The new text proposes that fixed-term contracts can be extended for up to three years.
At the same time, it was made clear that this initiative will continue to be supported by seven pillars, highlighting job stability and forms of hiring.
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“There have been many debates, various hearings and in a joint effort with the House of Representatives, our priority is to have it filed next week. We have been doing rigorous work directly with the speakers of this initiative and there are also important adjustments that were made in the first one in the Seventh Commission of the chambers.“, explained the Minister of Labor.
Likewise, the head of this portfolio said that the job reconversion will continue with an emphasis on jobs “green” and “blues”, and a fair transition in the workplace will be supported. The strategy for a fair transition seeks protect and retrain jobs, ensuring sustainability and respect for the environment.
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Health reform heats up
Besides, The Minister of the Interior, Juan Fernando Cristo, shed new light on the new health reform project to be presented by the Government. According to the official, the initiative would be submitted to Congress in the next two weeks.
The Ministry of the Interior also announced that it is considering the possibility of presenting the article as a statutory law, rather than an ordinary one, which would change part of its procedure.
“We are listening to the opinion of the benches. There is no final decision from the Government on whether we insist that the procedure is ordinary or whether we review the position that there are some rules within the project, we have to look at the final content, which have a statutory character. I believe that next week we will make a decision on this matter.“, he explained.
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For its partthe Minister of Health, Guillermo Jaramillo, announced that the process of consultation with the parties is coming to an endIn this regard, he clarified that the Government’s goal is not to nationalize the system, but to generate stability that benefits all Colombians.
“It is up to us to reach consensus with all parliamentarians and we have managed to reconcile the issue of EPS and here it must be made clear that we are not nationalizing, this is not a nationalizing government.“, declared Minister Guillermo Jaramillo.
There have been quite a few debates and
Now our priority is to have it filed next week to achieve its approval.
Along the same lines, the head of the Health portfolio indicated that The reform initiative contemplates the creation of a rural health model to serve more than 20 million people. “We want to build on what has already been built, we are not going to end a system, we want to strengthen it in terms of prevention and not maintain a curative system, which is what does not allow many Colombians to access health care.“, he added.
In addition to the health initiative, the Petro government plans to present to the legislature the project for regulating agrarian jurisdiction, another of the executive’s major bets on its agenda.
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“Next week we expect the speakers of the labor reform to present their report to begin the discussion in the plenary session of the House and before two weeks, the first projects that the Government will submit will be the health reform and the agrarian jurisdiction law.“, announced the Minister of the Interior.
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