At Álvarez Liévano Laserna, we analyze each of them and present a summary of what is being discussed. For further information, we invite you to contact us through our usual channels.
Bill 021 of 2022.
Through which the working hours are made more flexible for workers with family responsibilities who work a continuous working day, whether in the public or private sector, so that they can better articulate their professional responsibilities with their family responsibilities.
2. Bill 025 of 2022.
Whereby a floor for salary increases is established. In this regard, it is specified that salaries paid in the national territory, in the private sector, higher than the legal monthly minimum salary in force must be adjusted annually in a proportion that may not be lower than the CPI of the immediately preceding year.
3. Bill 038 of 2022.
Whereby Article 42 of Law 1861 of 2017 is amended and the requirement to define the military situation to access the labor field is eliminated. The project seeks that the military situation should not be accredited to hold public positions, work in the private sector and enter into service provision contracts, when the person belongs to socioeconomic strata 1, 2 or 3. The other rules provided in Law 1861 of 2017 would remain unchanged.
4. Bill 046 of 2022.
By which the number of vacation days for Colombian workers is increased in compliance with the recommendations of the ILO. Thus, the purpose is to modify the fifteen (15) days of vacation currently provided for each year of service rendered, for twenty (20) days.
5. Bill 049 of 2022.
Whereby Articles 160 and 168 of the Substantive Labor Code are amended, in order to reduce the period of daytime work. The purpose of the project is that day work includes work performed between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., so that between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. it shall be understood as night work, which shall be entitled to the night work surcharge.
6. Bill 071 of 2022.
Whereby the Substantive Labor Code is amended with respect to the disciplinary procedure in private employment relationships. In this order, the project seeks to include within the disciplinary sanctions both the calls for attention, suspensions, fines and dismissals. It also establishes that the contract may only be terminated with just cause, prior exhaustion of the procedure established in Article 115 of the Substantive Labor Code, which also seeks to be modified in the sense that the disciplinary process must include: (i) formal summons to present the charges; (ii) formulation of the charges and provisional qualification of the conducts; (iii) transfer of evidence; (iv) final pronouncement; and (v) the possibility for the employee to dispute the decisions.
7. Bill 090 of 2022.
Whereby the General System of Labor Risks is modified, in order to contribute to the development of occupational safety and health of the country's productive force and, at the same time, to reduce labor accident rates in the public and private sectors.
8. Bill 113 of 2022.
Whereby Articles 160, 161 and 179 of the Substantive Labor Code are amended. This project also seeks to establish that night work is that between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Additionally, it is stated that work on Sundays and holidays will be remunerated with a surcharge of 100% over the ordinary salary in proportion to the hours worked.
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