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23% Increase in the Minimum Would Affect Employment in the Contact Centers: Youth Employment Is at Risk

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Guild bringing together BPO companies says there will be a slowdown in hiring. Over 60% of workers are between 18 and 29 years old.
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The 23% increase in the minimum wage by 2026 will end up generating a detrimental domino effect for key macroeconomic variables in Colombia, experts warn. “Although it pursues the laudable objective of improving the income of 2.4 million people who earn the minimum wage, the disproportionate increase will end up negatively affecting all Colombians through higher levels of inflation and interest rates,” notes a Corficolombiana analysis. In Colomb…

These spending divisions would have the highest price increase between January and March for their anchoring to the minimum wage that increased 23%

·Bogotá, Colombia
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In this, the surveillance fees were defined. Photo taken from https://www.seguridadsuperior.com.co/ The update of the minimum wage that will govern from 2026 has generated a strong concern in the private security sector in Colombia, due to its direct implications on the cost structure of formal surveillance companies. The National Confederation of the Private Security Guild (Confevip) warned that the new basic income, which reaches $2,000,000 pe…

Guild bringing together BPO companies says there will be a slowdown in hiring. Over 60% of workers are between 18 and 29 years old.

Gustavo Petro's decision to raise the minimum wage by 23% will "severe fiscal and inflation challenges," while boosting "increases in the rate of monetary policy that could affect growth," according to Fitch Rating's latest report on Colombia.

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diarioestrategia.cl broke the news in on Monday, January 12, 2026.
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