The Ministry of Labor pronounced against the complaints received for the alleged pressure that some companies would be exerting so that their collaborators go out on August 7. The mobilization, convened by a national policy sector, would be carried out against the conviction of former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
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Through a statement, the work portfolio expressed its rejection against this type of actions that violate workers’ rights and announced that it advances an investigation in this regard.
In that sense, the entity will order inspection, surveillance and control actions to the companies that are aware of apparent “Cases of violence, threats or violation of labor regulations against their workers for the affairs presented here.”
In addition, he stressed that “Social protest and freedom of expression are fundamental rights that in the framework of guarantees, especially freedom, must pass peacefully and without violence of any kind against those who mobilize or decide not to do so.”
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The Ministry recalled that the working men and women of the national territory are protected by the Constitution and the laws against possible impositions of a political and religious nature that affect their labor rights. Punctually, this is established in the Article 59 of the Substantive Labor Code (CST).
In the same way, he called on the complaint and rejection of these types of situations that are being presented in companies within the framework of political actions and/or the programmed mobilizations.
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