After a meeting between President Gustavo Petro, the Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, and the guidelines of the Colombian Association of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Acopi, issues such as job protection and some critical points of the labor reform presentation were raised.
According to what Minister Gloria Inés Ramírez said, “in this labor reform we have not only worked with the technical tables, but also expanded the proposals that are now under discussion in the Congress of the Republic.”
He also added that “we must say that the comprehensive employment policy is already included in the National Development Plan, with reindustrialization, with rural development, association, the solidarity economy and the recognition of the whole people’s economy that they are associations like enabling Acopi to have a direct articulation with this policy”.
At the end of that meeting, Acopi’s president, Rosmery Quintero, was optimistic about the ongoing dialogue that has been held with the national government, claiming that “there’s a big stake and it’s just how to mitigate the impact that’s why we have we have already asked the minister to the various ministries about how we can continue the discussion to generate instruments that optimize the business structure, because when we talk about reform, we should not see reform in isolation, but all regulations integrated and with the various programs and several tables keep moving forward.”
It should be noted that the Colombian Association of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises groups more than 90% of the country’s employers. For now, the Labor Reform Report is ready for its first debate in the Seventh Committee of the House of Representatives.
Source: El heraldo

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