In the, of, the statements of the Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, were analyzed in addition to other issues of national situation.
During this debate, Jaime Alberto Cabal, president of the National Federation of Merchants, referred to the possibility that the extra hours begin at 7:00 pm “We have already made the accounts that increases. That, plus the Sundays, increases between 18 and 35 % labor costs. In what sectors I will tell you. Those who work at night, weekends and Sunday. The bakeries, the neighborhood coffee shops, all these, 64 %, located in the 1, 2 and 3. Extralate. That is, what tries to claim workers’ rights, what it is is attacking the workers, because they are so workers who have a bakery and generate three jobs such as the 100 workers of a factory, ”said Cabal.
“It also attacks or generates negative effects on the companies of payment in the bars, in the restaurants, in the maintenance company, which do maintenance at night, the cleaning companies that make the cleaning at night, also to transport companies, to surveillance companies, to logistics companies,” added the president of Fenalco Nacional.
“That is, that really here, if that premise is maintained to lower the day at 7 at night, that implies 2 more hours of extracostos, which I return and say, with the Sundays of Sundays, depending on the size of the company, it is a cost of 18 to 35%. Many companies could surely disappear, we cannot agree with that. Why?” He explained.
“What the Government wants is to claim the rights of workers at the expense of destroying employment and a coast of not giving opportunities to the unemployed because the more expensive the labor link is, because the less opportunities there are people. It is a very clear supply and market mechanism.”
“It seems that you think that dignifying the work of Colombians is that by the effect of these high labor costs, as a baker told us these days, that instead of generating four jobs, it will have to stay with two, because or the price of their products to the consumer is uploaded and obviously does not sell or reduce with those increases in the costs, reduce the workers it has and that will happen in many parts or many micro and small companies.
“The same will happen in companies that will start automating or others that are going to close. So, really when one has not paid a payroll in life or paid a loan, because it is obviously very easy to make a speech and say that this is false and it turns out that it is quite the opposite.”
“This new consultation contemplates the 12 initial and four more questions, so that the people are pronounced on the labor rights of the working class and that, finally, there are the basis for Colombians to access their fundamental rights to health and work, rights that are in the Constitution. It turns out that today the working class does not find its guaranteed rights because Congress has not wanted to legislate and that is why the people must resolve that conflict between what the executive The legislative, ”said the head of the Government portfolio.
Benedetti also indicated that the consultation, in his opinion, is still valid: when the first consultation went to vote, what Law 5 says is that you must read what is going to vote, so the president of the Senate tells the Secretary the following point of the agenda, they announce and the President opens the registration. A proposition had to be voted by accepting the favorable concept and when the vote ends, a vote is clarified. What we believe is that the Senate has not spoken, so the two consultations are life and running in Congress.
- Do you agree that the day work lasts maximum 8 hours and is between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm?
- Do you agree with a 100 % surcharge to work on Sunday or festive rest day?
- Do you agree that micro, small and medium -sized productive companies, preferably associative, receive preferential rates and incentives for their productive projects?
- Do you agree that people may have the necessary permits to address medical treatments and licenses for disabling menstrual periods?
- Do you agree that companies must hire at least 2 people with disabilities for every 100 workers?
- Do you agree that young apprentices of SENA and similar institutions have a employment contract?
- Do you agree that working people on distribution platforms agree their type of contract and are guaranteed social security payment?
- Do you agree with establishing a special labor regime so that field entrepreneurs guarantee labor rights and just salary to agricultural workers?
- Do you agree to eliminate outsourcing and labor intermediation through union contracts that violate labor rights?
- Do you agree that domestic workers, community mothers, journalists, athletes, artists, drivers, among other informal workers, are formalized or have access to social security?
- Do you agree to promote job stability through indefinite term contracts as a general rule?
- Do you agree to constitute a special fund for the recognition of a pension bonus for peasants and peasants?
- Do you agree with the government buying or producing the necessary medicines to make complete and timely delivery to patients?
- Do you agree that the EPS ceases to be financial intermediaries, become health managers and ADRES pay directly to hospitals and clinics?
- Do you agree that a Primary Care model in preventive and resolutive health is guaranteed with extension of the necessary services of a public, private and mixed nature?
- Do you agree to establish a special labor regime to guarantee employees and health workers, labor rights, and the fair salary?
