Friday, January 27, 2023
In two years, the portfolio has received 32,718 complaints from workers for violation of regulations and labor rights
The Ministry of Labor launched a primer to help control violations of labor rights. “Labor inspection in Colombia in the light of international standards and ILO conventions” is the first virtual primer that contains updated jurisprudence and all the information on standards. It was prepared by the Ministry of Labor, the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).
This consultation document will be mandatory for labor and social security inspectors, since it has the objective of exercising labor control.
“The MinTrabajo In the last two years, it has received 32,718 complaints from workers for violation of labor standards and for regulatory inconsistencies in provisions on occupational hazards. For this reason, we put this virtual booklet at the service to be able to attend more efficiently through updated and easily accessible jurisprudence, regulations and methodology, these thousands of requirements related to our entity”, assured the Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez. .
The main complaints from workers in the country have to do with non-compliance with occupational safety and health regulations by the employer, as well as non-payment of contributions to the social security system in occupational hazards, laying off workers workers with manifest limitation, without prior permission from the labor portfolio or for non-payment of benefits or salaries in the periods established by law.
In fact, the Directorate of Inspection, Surveillance, Control and Social Security of the Ministry of Labor reported that in the last two years 4,446 complaints were made by workers for non-compliance with the social security system, payment of wages and social security regulations.
“The powers that the Ministry of Labor has today to review and inspect workers are very broad. So much so that a labor inspector can control any company and at any time and demand that they give him access to the facilities and all the information he requests,” said Camilo Cuervo, governor of the Labor and Social Security Lawyers Association. from Colombia.
The inspectors have functions of surveillance and control of employers both in the private and in the public sphere. “In the public in collective matters and in the private in both things: in individual rights and in collective rights,” added Cuervo. They also have the power to impose fines of up to 5,000 smmlv.
Therefore, the experts assure that all these complaints and infractions do not fall on a matter of lack of laws or regulations, but of ignorance of the powers of the Ministry.
“What the MinTrabajo is doing with this booklet is to publicize its own functions and how they can help the citizen,” added Cuervo.
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