The reform approved by the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia on 17 October is designed to give workers more rights, such as four weeks' paternity leave, days off for medical appointments and higher pay for compulsory rest days. The text must now be approved by the Senate.
It is one of the major projects of the government of Gustavo Petro, the left-wing president who came to power in 2022 with a programme of ambitious social reforms. The Chamber of Representatives, the parliament’s lower house, approved the labour reform on 17 October (93 votes in favour, 13 against); it comprises more than 80 articles aimed at amending the labour code adopted in 1950, which the government considered obsolete and unfavourable to workers’ rights. “We are very happy with this break
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Flora Genoux
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