The Minister of Labor, Antonio Sanguino, referred to the impacts that the implementation of the labor reform would have. The official’s intervention was given within the framework of the ‘What are the reforms that Colombia needs?’organized by ‘change’ with the support of Colpensiones, the work portfolio and the National Learning Service (SENA).
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According to the minister, the implementation of Law 2466 of 2025 could achieve in a period of between six months to one year The formalization of more than 1.5 million workers. This figure includes domestic workers, distributors, community mothers, among others.
“I make the account: of the 700,000 domestic workers, 500,000 are not formalized; it is obliged to make 440,000 people from the distribution platforms have an employment contract, social benefits and protection of occupational hazards; it provides that the community mothers and workers of the ICBF gardens are formalized with a labor contract, between 40,000 and 60,000 employment, which will be recognized as work experience “, Sanguino highlighted.
Journalists are also contemplated on that list, Culture and artisan workers, athletes and sports instructors.
The mintbajo also questioned the narrative that has been used from some fronts of the business fabric around labor rights, taking as reference the arguments regarding the learning contract.
“There are some business spokesmen who have taken by habit or built a tacaña narrative when referring to workers’ rights, for example: they wielded the argument that the employment contract of the apprentices of the Seine could not be recognized because it would mean that the entrepreneurs gave up hiring them and that is not so. Zero nerves, what will happen is the opposite,” The minister pointed out.
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SMEs, pensions and others
The holder of the portfolio too He referred to the incentives that are raised for small, medium and large companieshighlighting that the labor costs that are increased could be compensated with tax stimuli.
In this regard, he pointed out that a bill is being prepared with the Ministry of Commerce that allows to meet that objective.
On the challenges facing Colombia regarding social security, the president of Colpensiones, Jaime Dussán Calderón, stressed that pension reform It has already exceeded all the talanqueras and must be analyzed soon in the Constitutional Court.
“Colpensiones is ready to implement the pension law and is prepared to receive 18 million people. We will be the only entity that pensions in Colombia and we will protect citizens’ resources. Labor reform is key: today 12 million people do not quote and must do so to guarantee a dignified old age”he noted.
For his part, the general director of SENA, Jorge Eduardo Londoño, referred to the advances and effects that It will have the implementation of the labor in the hiring of the apprentices.
According to Londoño, around 400,000 young people will benefit with the law. “After the reform we have had 23,243 more learning contracts. What deconstructs the idea that we were going to have less hiring.”he added.
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