This Tuesday, April 22, the National Government presented to the country the 12 questions that the popular consultation will have, promoted by President Gustavo Petro to carry out the labor reform that sank in the Congress of the Republic.
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Labor Ministers, Antonio Sanguino, and Interior, Armando Benedetti, were responsible for the socialization of the initiative that will be officially based by President Gustavo Petro on May 1, within the framework of International Labor Day.
“The popular consultation project, which is promoted by the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro Urrego, consists of 12 questions that reflect the spirit of labor transformation promoted by the current government, with the aim of guaranteeing greater rights and well -being for the working class of the country”the government said.
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Next, the initiative questionnaire, which will be filed in Congress on May 1:
1. Do you agree that the day work lasts maximum 8 hours and is between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm?
2. Do you agree with a 100 % surcharge to work on Sunday or festive rest day?
3. Do you agree that micro, small and medium -sized productive companies, preferably associative, receive preferential rates and incentives for their productive projects?
4. Do you agree that people may have the necessary permits to address medical treatments and licenses for disabling menstrual periods?
5. Do you agree that companies must hire at least 2 people with disabilities for every 100 workers?
6. Do you agree that young apprentices of SENA and similar institutions have a employment contract?
7. Do you agree that working people on distribution platforms agree their type of contract and are guaranteed social security payment?
8. Do you agree with establishing a special labor regime so that field entrepreneurs guarantee labor rights and just salary to agricultural workers?
9. Do you agree to eliminate outsourcing and labor intermediation through union contracts that violate labor rights?
10. Does it agree that domestic workers, community mothers, journalists, athletes, artists, drivers, among other informal workers, are formalized or have access to social security?
11. Do you agree to promote job stability through indefinite term contracts as a general rule?
12. Do you agree to constitute a special fund for the recognition of a pension bonus for peasants and peasants?
Threshold
President Petro is confident that the electoral capital of almost 11.3 million votes with which he won the presidency in 2022 remains intact and will be able to expand it in the consultation to achieve his objectives.
In Colombia there are 40,963,370 people enabled to vote, so at least 13,654,456 citizens must be listed so that the popular consultation is valid and that half plus one of the votes is expressed in favor of each government question.
Bolívar’s sword will take
After announcing the filing of the popular consultation on May 1, President Petro said he has a schedule to pay tribute to the Colombian working class on Labor Day.
“I will be that day in the Plaza de Bolívar and I will enter the Congress once let’s talk there in public to present personally and with a popular delegation, as diverse as possible, the text of the popular consultation to the Senate”Petro said in a radio and television speech.
On March 11 Petro announced the call to a popular consultation on a date to be defined so that citizens decide on their health and work reforms, which has not been able to move forward in Congress.
The Senate is the one that must decide whether or not to approve the call to the consultation proposed by the president.
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In that sense, he asked for peaceful mobilizations “In all the squares of Colombia” May 1, Labor Day, in support of the popular consultation and added that this day will unsheathe the sword of the liberator Simón Bolívar.
“I think you have to unsheathe the sword to repeat a phrase of the Liberator: until there is no social justice in Colombia, the sword will not be puffed, but will continue to be discharged as today is in the halls of this house of Nariño. That sword must guide the popular consultation today and, therefore, it will be exposed,” said.
The first act of government of Petro, on August 7, 2022, was to order that the Liberator’s sword, a symbol of his guerrilla struggle and then political, was taken to the stage where the investiture ceremony was held.
The theft of Bolívar’s sword was the first act of the guerrillas movement April 19 (M-19), which stole it on January 17, 1974 of the fifth of Bolívar, A museum house in the center of Bogotá where I was on display.
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