While at the end of June 2022 Colombia’s Covid-19 health emergency officially ended, on 18 July the government published a decree modifying the specific regime for telework in order to give it a permanent framework and make it more easily accessible. In particular, the text provides for the monthly compensation of telework expenses.
Colombian businesses and their teleworking employees must agree on “the amount of the monthly allowance to compensate for the teleworker’s internet, fixed and mobile telephony and energy costs.” This is one of the new measures introduced by Decree 1227 published in July 2022 and set to regulate telework conditions in the country. However, the text specifies that in the interest of the regime’s “efficient implementation”, this compensation may be zero if both parties have so agreed. The decree
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